Michelle Cummings should be alive. The justice system failed to protect her time and again. The mother who was dropping off her son, a newly inducted midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, died (according to charges filed against him) at the hands of a violent criminal with a long rap sheet named Angelo Harrod, who should never have been on the streets.

But on June 29, only a week after President Joe Biden announced his “Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Gun Crimes,” Harrod allegedly shot and killed the Houston mother on her hotel patio while taking aim at others in a nearby car.