Manson replied, “I wouldn’t say a single word to them. I would listen to what they have to say. That’s what no one did.” It was, to Manson’s credit, a generous reaction to an event he had nothing to do with (and that could have ended his career). Yet his words also felt a little like the last scene from the worst real-life After School Special the country had ever experienced: “What about the children? What are the children feeling?”
