When I read about the Virginia jury awarding $10 million to teacher Abby Zwerner after she was shot by her 6-year-old student after administrators ignored repeated warnings that a gun was on school grounds, I felt two things: admiration for a jury that did its job, and outrage for every Oxford family who will never be given that chance in a Michigan courtroom.

Because our state’s antiquated, self-protective governmental immunity laws would have stopped Zwerner’s case before it even began. If that same shooting happened in Michigan, her lawsuit would have been thrown out by a trial judge with no jury and no day in court.

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