That definitely wouldn’t apply in this situation. From a reliable source, Dawson is the default CEGEP (college) in Montreal because it is cheap (we’re talking 100 bucks a semester) and open to pretty much everyone.
Now here’s the thing, via the Montreal Craigslist:
a blog called Montreal People I Hate popped up a few weeks ago. It reads “there’s a lot of fuckers in montreal that i hate. there’s a good chance one of them is you. maybe you’ll make the list.” It’s actually pretty funny, but Montreal bloggers are still waiting to see if this guy posts again (his last was yesterday).
One young woman died of her injuries tonight. No more details than that, and the hospitals have said they’ll give us an update in the morning. There are several people in operating rooms right now in three of Montreal’s hospitals, and from what I understand, at least a couple of them are in very bad shape.
I’m almost upset that they killed the shooter, because not knowing why he did it makes it that much harder to understand.
Totally unnecessary comment. Whatever your stance is on gun control, this is not the time or the place for comments like that. Why do people feel the need to piss in other people’s pools? Because they can? Stupid.
Anyway, every time I read about something like this all I can do is shake my head and wonder what these people are thinking about that makes them snap like this. A damn tragedy, that’s what it is.
Airman, detop lives in Montreal. This IS his pool.
I’ve been crying on and off all day. My cousin was in the atrium, apparently a girl standing next to him was shot. That was my school, it’s still the mall I hang out at when I’m home… I’m in shock and horrified.
In all fairness, I heard this topic come up on the news less than an hour after the shooting (with Gilles Duceppe weighing in). But the kid used what eyewitnesses described as an (illegal) AK47/machine gun.
Yes, it is. Because Steve Harper (our prime sinister) and his proto-fascist party decided that hicks votes are more important than doing the right thing and decided to scrap the registry over the objections of most police chiefs of the country instead of fixing it. And Cat Fight, what I’ve heard, is that it was a long gun (exactly the type of weapon that the registry was put into place to control), not an AK. And Helen’s Eidolon is right (and more than right), this IS my pool. I live less than a mile from where the events occured (BTW, sorry about your friend, hope everything’s right).
I think your anger would be better directed at the walking piece of misery that actually shot people instead spewing bigoted comments across the board. All the registry would have done is inform police how many weapons to expect when they show up at the killer’s house. Since this paragon of civility opted to carry three guns into a crowed CEGEP cafeteria and open fire, I might guess that he failed to notify the proper authorities of the use he intended for his weapons.
And it’s not just your pool detop, lots of us have links to that area. If you want to bash the hick supported, proto-fascist Harper open a new OP.
I’m still kind of freaking out about this. As I said, I don’t even know anyone at Dawson, but the whole thing is just so disturbing to me. I come near to tears whenever I think about it too much, and I couldn’t help thinking that most of the students being interviewed on TV look so young (and heck, I’m only 25, but still…) and they just had to grow up really fucking fast. I witnessed a middle of the night gang shooting in downtown Toronto this summer (oddly, where you expect these things to happen, as opposed to a CEGEP in Montreal in the middle of the day) and while it stopped bothering me the next day, now it’s kind of coming back to me. It’s just way too scary a world.
I haven’t come across any references to the type of gun (guns - most reports say he had 3) used, but while I support the concept of a gun registry, when it comes to crazy things like this, I don’t think it matters much. Legal gun, illegal gun, the psycho is still gonna go shooting up a college cafeteria. In a case like this, the gun isn’t the issue, so much as the mental state of the person.
I was completely out of it all afternoon. I had stuff to do and I could scarcely concentrate. Kept coming back to the news sites. It’s now on front pages across the world.
The two people I can think of at Dawson - the daughter of my dad’s best friend, and a former professor of mine - are both unharmed. I won’t say “okay,” because she was in the building not far from the shooter; but at least she got out of the building unhurt. (The professor wasn’t on campus at the time; he was having lunch nearby.)
Well, as someone who has lived in Hick Central all her life, I have to agree with this. Sure, this is his pool (and mine, too), but this is definitely not the time or the place to go off on bitter arguments over one of the most divisive hot issues in Canada right now. Please open an new OP, detop. We’ll all meet you there.
I honestly know very little about the gun registry and don’t want to debate it, but FYI you can check out at least one of his guns here (in case they take it down-- under one pic it says ‘CX4 Storm Semi-Automatic Carbine’ sooo… that’s ‘restricted’ but not illegal, right?).
Fair enough. But it will have to wait unitl this afternoon. In the meantime, I would like to thank the Montreal Police, the staff at the Montreal General Hospital and the students of Concordia.
