Wow, a classmate was cheering? And a 6th grader did that?
I was in college when Reagan was shot. I remember all of us being gathered in the dormatory’s rec room where there was a TV. Everyone was silent and stunned. And that was at UW-Madison WI, now known as the Berkely of the Midwest.
In 1981, was at an Ivy League school (Princeton) and I heard faculty members say that "Reagan is better off dead because of what he will do to the environment."
Wayne Root, the libertarian, was at Columbia and he watched his entire class stand up and cheer when it was erroneously announced that Reagan was dead. The professor particpated in the frolics, also.
No, nothing surprises me about the left in America anymore. A party that will cheer the injury or death of a political opponent will cheat to win a Senate seat (Franken in Minnesota, McCaskill in Missouri), and allow an unqualified candidate to become President (Obama).