Ottawa parents reeling after mass shooting at Connecticut elementary school

   People take part in a candlelight vigil in Times Square, for the victims of the Sandy Hook School shooting, in New York, December 14, 2012. A heavily armed gunman opened fire on school children and staff at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, killing at least 26 people, including 20 children, in the latest in a series of shooting rampages that have tormented the United States this year. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Sharon Ianni-Luci broke into tears when she heard of the young, innocent lives lost in a small Connecticut elementary school Friday morning.
Right away, her thoughts turned to her own small children, safely sequestered at Frank Ryan Catholic Senior Elementary School in Ottawa.

“I felt for the parents of the children and I was trying to imagine how I would react if something like that happened here,” she said.

She decided to pick her kids up after school so she could hold them close without having to wait for them to get off the bus.

Ianni-Luci said every time she preps her kids for school there’s the lingering fear that such a tragedy could be wrought on them — a fear shared by all parents — but she tries to keep it in the back of her mind.
“This is something that usually happens in the United States,” she said. “I feel that we’re pretty safe here in Ottawa, I try not to worry.”

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