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The Montreal school shooting - How does this affect you?
September 14, 2006 - 04:56 PM
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After the shooting in Montreal at Dawson Community College, the Creating Local Connections Canada group decided that it would be beneficial for people to speak out about this tragic event.
This discussion thread is meant for those who want to express how it affected them, what they think of what happened and just general feelings surrounding the event and the aftermath.
The CLC Canada group has also created a group where people can gather important information highlighting important events such as this. Please feel to join this group at http://groups.takingitglobal.org/CLCCEC
We sincerely appreciate all of your words and feedback.
Regards,
The Creating Local Connections Canada Team
http://projects.takingitglobal.org/clccanada
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Re: The Montreal school shooting - How does this affect you?
September 14, 2006 - 07:01 PM
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I am currently living in Montreal, and I was at the Montreal Children's Hospital, which is two blocks away from Dawson College, when the shooting occurred.
I was sitting in a conference room with a number of my classmates when all of a sudden over the loudspeaker we heard a "Code Orange" being called - (there are a series of codes that mean different things in case of emergency) - in this case Code Orange means "external disaster". Later we found out that a number of people had been shot at Dawson. I went outside and saw the chaotic scene in the area - there were dozens of police cars, news vans and choppers, and more importantly, hundreds of Dawson students streaming away from the school. Many of them looked scared and really traumatized. A number had witnessed the shootings or seen friends shot.
This is a wake-up call if nothing else - that we need to do something about gun control in this country. A 25-year old managed to obtain a semi-automatic assault rifle, and walk brazenly into a school and shoot innocent students... This kind of weapon should be banned in Canada and across the world, and stronger measures should be taken to stop the black market in these weapons. Violence like this should never happen, and of course it's all the more shocking when it hits close to home like this.
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Re: The Montreal school shooting - How does this affect you?
September 15, 2006 - 10:05 AM
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For me, this recent incident should be viewed beyond the fact that the young gunman wore a mohawk hairdo, or sported all black......too often we compartmentalize the people involved in these kinds of attacks, perhaps to better comprehend why they happen. In my opinion, this is missing the point; When we say that the attacks were committed by someone deviant from the norm, we neglect the fact that this is part of larger trend of violence that is sweeping across us. What we need to examine is how violence has become an knee-jerk response in our world, and the more difficult question of how to eliminate that....
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Re: The Montreal school shooting - How does this affect you?
September 17, 2006 - 08:06 AM
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"The police had said 25-year-old Kimveer Gill, who killed a young woman and injured 19 other people at Dawson College, was gunned down by officers.
But a post-mortem examination revealed that a wound in his arm from a police bullet was not fatal.
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Gill, from Montreal, had a blog on a website devoted to the Goth sub-culture in which he referred to himself as an "Angel of Death" and said his ambition was to die in a hail of bullets.
It contains a photo gallery of more than 50 pictures showing him in a variety of poses with different guns and wearing a long black trench coat.
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Police have ruled out terrorism or racism as a motive.
Police chief Delorme said Gill had fired randomly at no particular target, until police arrived when he began aiming at them.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5346834.stm
and some statistics of shootings in Canada taken from the same BBC article:
28 April, 1999: 14-year-old boy kills one student, wounds one other at a high school in Taber, Alberta - eight days after US Columbine massacre.
24 August, 1992: Professor Valery Fabrikant kills four colleagues at Concordia University, Montreal.
6 December, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, kills 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, then kills himself.
28 May, 1975: 16-year-old high school student kills a teacher and a student, wounds 13 others before killing himself in Brampton, Ontario.
Now to my opinion. The fact that the guy was having a blog where he was posing with guns and claiming whatever he claimed is an indicating sign of fanaticism. And he might, in my opinion, be one of those so-called punks who are quite widespread in all of western civilized world(this is mainly a trait of civilized world). Usually i think similar individuals are considering themselves as rejects of society and are repugnant to social and common human values.
The claim that this wasnt a terrorist attack seems to me pluasible while otherwise the guy would have said something before doing what he did as to have it imprinted in theminds of those present. Evidence points out to contrary: he didnt say anything but only shot people...
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