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Thursday, September 14, 2006
This is becoming a bad habit for the world . . .
I remember last week when a mutual friend of ours mentioned a shooting at her old university. The fact that it was hers made it extra shocking for her, but nonetheless the incident ain't all too pleasant.
Yesterday, there was a new incident. It wasn't at my school - hell, it was on the other side of the country - but it's still scary as hell.
I'm not sure if any of you have heard about this yet, but yesterday a 25 year old man went on a shooting spree at Dawson College in downtown Montreal. He shot at least a dozen people (some newer reports are saying nineteen) and killed one girl before he died in a shootout with the police. As of this moment, there doesn't seem to be any motive for the shooting yet and it all just seemed to be really random, which is part of why it's really scary.
I suppose we should be grateful in a way that there weren't more deaths from this incident, but it's really a minute point. The entire downtown area in Montreal was in chaos the whole day, and well, shootings at schools just shouldn't happen.
From what I understand, this is especially unnerving for Montreal: this isn't the first wide-scale shooting to occur in the city. In 1989, there was a shooting known as the "Montreal Massacre", where a man went to the École Polytechnique de Montreal campus and killed 14 students and wounded 13 others before committing suicide - they were all women. Again, these sorts of things just shouldn't have to happen.
My older brother (the cop who got into ERT) came over for dinner and to do his laundry. When the early news came on with this story (live broadcasts from Montreal), he said to me, "this is gonna happen here soon."
Seems the odds of some sort of shooting or other similar thing happening in Vancouver are practically locked. Still, the brother says they're training a lot for this so when it does happen, they can handle it. I don't doubt they are, and I don't doubt the VPD will perform excellently when the time comes . . . . . heh, still, can't say I'm looking forward to seeing when that happens . . .
. . . fun times we live in, eh? Man . . .
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