Attorneys are giving closing arguments to the jury in the $40 million lawsuit filed by a former Virginia teacher shot by her 6-year-old student in a case that could set a dramatic precedent for who to blame after school shootings.

“A gun changes everything,” a lawyer for the teacher, Abby Zwerner, told jurors Wednesday, stressing it was the job of defendant Ebony Parker, then an assistant principal, to make sure everyone on campus was safe after people raised concerns a child had a gun.

“You stop and you investigate. You get to the bottom of it,” attorney Kevin Biniazan continued. “You get to the bottom of that backpack. You get to the bottom of his pockets, whatever it is. You get to the bottom of it to know whether that gun is real and on campus so you can deal with it.

“But that’s no

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