Not in Canada!

[treide]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/09/13/montreal.shooting/index.html

I was hoping that Canada would remain relatively immune from this sort of insanity. Oh well, sign of the times.

 

[AinuLainour]

Unfortunately, this isn\'t the first time that this has happened. A few years ago, there was a bad shooting in Calgary.

 

[No Such Agency]

Thank god nobody was killed. Having another Ecole Polytechnique happen would be just unfathomably awful.

 

[AinuLainour]

There\'s 8 people in critical condition...

 

[demonherald]

It\'s a sad state of the world unfortunately that nowhere is safe.......

 

[philologus]

Originally posted by No Such Agency
Thank god nobody was killed. Having another Ecole Polytechnique happen would be just unfathomably awful.

Article said one student died of wounds.

 

[AinuLainour]

Originally posted by AinuLainour
Unfortunately, this isn\'t the first time that this has happened. A few years ago, there was a bad shooting in Calgary.

To reply to my earlier answer, there was also a really terrible shooting that also took place in Montreal in the \'90\'s. Someone shot and killed 14 women students at an engineering university.

 

[Ebonbuddha]

Yeah. It isn\'t surprising. Its a sign of the times like stated earlier.

 

[Infidel Castro]

CNN are sick, offering videos of people shitting themselves. I refuse to watch videos like that.

Horrible news though. Stuff like this just comes out of the blue.

 

[MPJ]

Of course this event couldn\'t have happened. Most guns are completely illegal in Montreal so he couldn\'t have had them. Also the national gun registry keeps guns out of the hands of crazies.

 

[airhead]

Too bad nobody was able to carry a weapon and defend themselves.

[sarcasm] But the police were right there and stopped this nut from doing any harm. [/sarcasm]

 

[Infidel Castro]

Originally posted by airhead
Too bad nobody was able to carry a weapon and defend themselves. But the police were right there and stopped this nut from doing any harm.

Did you read the article?

1 dead, 4-8 seriously injured? That\'s harm with a big H!

 

[airhead]

Sorry Rev, you didn\'t see the sarcasm in my remark.

Here is an example of a society that has effectively disarmed its populous and depends on the government for protection. The police are never there in time to prevent anything. They may show up in the middle of something (as here) and put an end to it, but often they are only there well after the fact to fill out the forms and assign blame.

 

[No Such Agency]

Don\'t even start with that, man. Have a look at the per capita rates of gun crime in our respective countries, and then try and come back with that \"arm the populace\" argument.

At any rate, I\'m pretty sure most US colleges have campus weapon bans, so it\'s very unlikely any of these students would had been armed anyway (in a hypothetical US version of this incident).

 

[airhead]

Originally posted by No Such Agency
...most US colleges have campus weapon bans, so it\'s very unlikely any of these students would had been armed anyway (in a hypothetical US version of this incident).

True, but the campus security could have been.

 

[No Such Agency]

Campus security at both schools I\'ve attended or worked at ARE cops. And they\'re not armed with teddy bears either.

 

[Talion]

Don\'t know about Canada, but in the UK guns are illegal, and how many times has gunman walked into a school at shot people over here.......maybe once I can remember in 28 years.

In the states where guns are legal, I can remember about 5 in the past 2 years

 

[Avicenna]

There was that guy in hungerford who thought he was Rambo...

 

[philologus]

Originally posted by AinuLainour

Originally posted by AinuLainour
Unfortunately, this isn\'t the first time that this has happened. A few years ago, there was a bad shooting in Calgary.

To reply to my earlier answer, there was also a really terrible shooting that also took place in Montreal in the \'90\'s. Someone shot and killed 14 women students at an engineering university.

The Ecole Polytechnic; Marc Lepine, 1989.

 

[Orb]

Originally posted by Avicenna
There was that guy in hungerford who thought he was Rambo...

Yeah, Michael Ryan in Hungerford in 1987 and Thomas Hamilton in Dunblane in 1996 are the UKs principal loon with a gun episodes.