It's such an amazingly selfish thing when people dissatisfied with their own lives feel the need to destroy the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of others, who have NOTHING to do with their problems. It's the ULTIMATE narcissistic act.
So, is Canada a failed state too? Sept. 13, 2006 Dawson College: Montreal An injured person is wheeled away from Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989 after gunman Marc Lepine opened fire at the university. Rifle fire echoing down the halls of a Montreal college on Wednesday conjured instant memories of Lepineâs horrific rampage almost 17 years ago. (Shaney Komulainen/Canadian Press) A young man opens fire outside Dawson College, a CEGEP serving about 10,000 students in downtown Montreal, and then continues the rampage inside the school. Witnesses describe seeing a tall skinny youth with a Mohawk haircut walk into the cafeteria shortly before 1 p.m. ET carrying a large gun. The shooter, Kimveer Gill, 25, lived in a borough of Laval north of Montreal. He killed himself in a confrontation with police inside the school. One woman is killed, 18-year-old Anastasia DeSousa, and 19 people are wounded, at least six critically. They range in age from 17 to 48, according to police. April 28, 1999: W. R. Myers High School, Taber, Alta. A 14-year-old boy opens fire with a .22-calibre rifle inside W. R. Myers High School in Taber, an Alberta town about 200 kilometres southeast of Calgary. The boy, who can't be named because of his age at the time of the crime, kills student Jason Lang, 17. Another student, Shane Christmas, 17, is wounded, but recovers from his injuries. The shooting takes place a week after the Columbine High School massacre. Dec. 6, 1989: L'Ãcole Polytechnique, Montreal Marc Lépine, 25, walks into a classroom at Montreal's l'Ãcole Polytechnique engineering school, separates the men from the women and tells the men to leave. Then he begins shooting from a semi-automatic military weapon, shouting "I want women" as he roams the school's floors. Lépine kills 13 female students and a college employee, and injures 13 others before committing suicide. He had purchased a semi-automatic, a Ruger Mini-14, to carry out his assault. The ease with which he had acquired it and carried out the assault leads to the creation of pressure groups, which eventually forces the federal government to set up a national gun control registry.
Guns people Guns. Its easy to pull a trigger. That's why this keeps happening, add cultural conditioning and all the other factors, It's not suprising you keep hearing the same story over and over.
I agree with alot of what you say, but as the OP mentioned, let's not forget Canada's recent wackadoo that went on a shooting spree in Montreal. That said I think it is far to easy to get a gun, especially a handgun in America. That's comes from a registered gun owner btw. Heck the sell cheat sheets to pass the freakin' test, no I did not buy one. :eek: America ranks pretty high up on the list you don't want to be on. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita
Canada is and always has been just a baby brother to the US. So there are no surprises that our cultures have the same problems.
Indeed. And speaking of violence (our society glorifies it so don't be surpised) our Candian soliders are being picked off one by one in afghanistan. Russia learned and left, how many bodies can WE take? We'll see. Again, we cannot ignore that our foriegn policy, our movies, our video games ALL glorify violence. And we make a ton of $$ on it, We are a death cult.
Come on moderator. This is another useless post in the trading section. Why do we need to use the "trading" section of this site to post up random bits? I know why, because its the forum thats at the top of the page and if we placed this post in the "chit-chat" section then no one will read it.