School Shooting in Montreal
 

I'm following this right now. It's pretty crazy :eek: . There are saying there is more than one shooter. One has already been shot by the cops.

I hope the students are ok.

That's so sad...it will be interesting to hear what lead to it as the story unfolds

:( :eek:

Last report was one gunman shot and killed, 20 students injured/wounded, and one 20 year-old woman died of wounds in the hospital... some are already comparing it to the Ecole Polytechnique shootings.

It should be interesting to see if this renews the debate on gun control - as from all accounts the shooter had an automatic or semi-automatic weapon.

My good friend's cousin was one of the last groups evacuated. She's ok, but they didn't hear from her until the end. Some of the people I work with and the kids know people who go there. It was really scary.

This will be the third time that Montreal knows violence in an academic institution. There was also an incident at Concordia University.

A research associate professor, Dr. Fabrikant, came to Concordia from the Soviet Union. In 1990 he got a tenure-track post as associate professor, but a faculty committee voted not to renew his appointment after June 1992. He basically went bat-$hit crazy, taking 2 students hostage, and killing 3 or 4 faculty members. He's serving time "in the can" right now.

An update
 

(AP) -- Investigators tried to determine Thursday why a young man in a black trench coat and a mohawk haircut opened fire in a Montreal college, killing one woman and left 19 other people wounded.

Six victims remained in critical condition, including two in extremely critical condition.

The attacker's name is Kimveer Gill, 25, of Laval, near Montreal, a police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because police were not ready to announce it publicly yet.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americ....ap/index.html

The victims probably brought it on themselves.

Does Michael Moore know about this?

Reports today say that the shooter was obscessed (that spelling doesn't look right, but I don't have time to look it up) with Colubine.

There was a Columbine "expert" in our facility today doing a live interview on for some Canadian broadcaster.

Yeah... on his blog he listed one of his favourite computer games was some sort of first-person shooter/RPG of Columbine. The blog is obviously down now and removed from vampirefreaks.com, but hopefully someone grabbed copies before... 'cause there was some interesting and freaky stuff on the site.

Even with all he posted (including 2 hours before his rampage) the police are still baffled as to a motive or even reason for selecting Dawson College as a target...

The guy's guns were all legal....

And your point is?

Lots of people have guns. Lots of people don't go off on shooting rampages. This was just a messed up person.

.....but i'm sure......probobly according to some people on here.....that it was the students/teachers/school's fault.

The semi-auto, well sorta - yes the weapon itself because of the caliber of round is just legal... however from all accounts it was using an illegal magazine, ie. more than 10 rounds.

As for weapons current legality... well I think the Conservatives are going to have to deal with a public backlash against their scrapping of the Firearms Registry... as for what the future holds? Who knows - but remember it was the Montreal Massacre that inspired the Firearms Registry in the first place...

http://vampirefreaks.com/gallery.php?u=fatality666

Thats the link to his photo gallery, the rest of the stuff is still availible but you have to log in to view it and to be honest i'm gonna try and stay as far away from that site as possible. It's the second time in the last 4 months or so that website has popped up with blog entries after serious homicides. Here in Medicine Hat a 12 year old girl killed her parents and 8 year old brother. She was apparently goth and dating a 22 year old who was also involved. both had blogs at vampirefreaks.com and the girl talked about wanting to kill her parents. I'm not saying the website has anything to directly do with it, but it looks like a place screwed up kids hang out.

Yeah... the site does have it's fair share of wackos... of course that may have something to do with the Goth sub-culture...

Afterall it is a sub-culture that does embrace (and to some extent encourage) alienation and a counter-culture image and attitude; but most importantly there seems to be an encouragement of the more dramatic expression of this. I mean if you ever go to a Goth bar or something you can easily spot who the actual nutjobs are in short-time...

Bear in mind that I'm a "former" Goth myself from way back in the early ninties...

I had a bright green mohawk that was foot tall.

It's nice to know the gun registry is working...