Even the TV anchor left that one alone. Over the next couple of hours, the story evolved into something a little more recognizable. The CNN footage started to include shots of weeping and hugging on the school campus. One girl cried during an interview. And while it began to appear that the detached observer trend was perhaps only sparsely attended, Santana High's immediate aftermath never looked like Columbine's.
People have their ways of responding to tragedy.
An immediate reaction is a legitimate one, etc. As the post-violence healers will surely tell us, this was numbness or shock. We'll accept this but briefly worry about today's kids' access to instantaneous perspective. Minutes after death, they're pundits. Maybe someone will call the Santana photographers jaded, or even cynical.