Well, I heard the radio say something in the other room on that afternoon. I was working with a student at the time and calmly commented something like: "Yeah, these things happen every once in a while". I guess it's something along the lines of the 35,000 children, or the "just another day in Baghdad". But the truth is that, having grown up in Israel, I don't really think about such things anymore. Experience showed, that nothing new is ever said on such topics (and we both know that this includes both your blog entry and this comment), so such news just don't trigger my thought process anymore.
Actually, I was making up a scenario in which I save the day by stopping the shooter. While I know that this is disturbingly unoriginal, I'm old enough not to care anymore.
In other news, Finch station was closed for some time yesterday. They say someone jumped on the tracks.