Montreal Shooting

[Huck_Schmuck]

+ve vibes to all involved.

[cmsummit]

post a link, duh!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14818183/

[Van_skier]

The latest:
"One woman has died in hospital in the shooting rampage at a downtown Montreal college Wednesday that also left the gunman dead and 19 others injured."

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...ts-dawson.html

[ak_powder_monkey]

thank god school shooters suck at shooting otherwise there would be a lot more deaths

[rippah]

My gal's cousin was in class at the time!

People sure are bizarre.

+++++vibes to all.

r.

[Mit]

Below's a pretty indepth story from the Montreal Gazette.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazett...d733b1&k=44689

[Ripzalot]

also an interesting read...

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/196688.php

Bowling For Columbine Bonus: Michael Moore's odious "documentary" Bowling For Columbine specifically contrasted the supposed guns-and-death culture of America with the peaceful, but still gun owning, culture of Canada.

How's that workin' out for him?

[MadPatSki]

I went to see Roger Waters in Montreal yesterday and meet up with a friend prior to going the concert with her and another friend.

We ending up talking about the shooting as she asked how I felt. I told her that this remind me of the Polytechnique massacre. Dawson College (the building wasn't part of the college prior to the 90(?)). Although I didn't know anybody involved, the school was less than 5 minutes away from where I grew up. I would walk in front of that building everyday to go to school or when I had a paper route.

She told me that one was a ski instructor with her at the Montreal YMCA ski school was one of the two on the most critical list (it was still very serious this week). vibes ++++++ to this fellow skier and hope he survives and skies again.

In December 89 when the Polytech massacre happened. I was a Master student working late in the University when I had on the radio that something was going on on campus (my friend that I meet yesterday would have been too). Polytechnique is the engineering school associated and on the same campus as UofM.

I was on the skiteam and maybe 20% of the skiers were from Polytech. Anne-Marie Edward had bought a brand new pair of ski boots the previous day(?) at an open-house for the skiteam in one of the leading ski shops in Montreal. She never got an opportunity to use them. The next day she was among the 14 killed. After the difficult funeral at historic Notre Dame basillica, I left town and went skiing that night at St-Sauveur. 2-3 guys on the skiteam lost all the girls from their class.

At that point in my life, it was clear. Live life now because you don't know what the future holds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_P...nique_massacre

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-398/...real_massacre/