NoCarrier

Stupid comments. We're french canadians, not frenchies.

This is like saying that british people are like americans because they speak the same langage. We don't even have the same accent.

I guess you are clueless about a lot of things about Montreal. This is not the first shooting in a school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c...nique_massacre

École Polytechnique massacre

The École Polytechnique massacre occured on December 6, 1989, at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. A man by the name of Marc Lépine entered the complex and carried out a shooting rampage which killed 14 students, as well as wounding 13 others, before commiting suicide shortly after. All of the victims targeted were women.

Shortly after 5 p.m., Lépine entered the École Polytechnique, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal. He had applied for admission into the engineering school but was rejected. He blamed it on affirmative action which kept him out in place of a woman. He first went into a mechanical engineering class, separated the men from the women, forced out the men at gunpoint, began to scream about how he hated feminists, and then opened fire. Lépine continued his rampage in other parts of the building, opening fire on other women he encountered. He killed 14 women (13 students and one employee of the university) and injured thirteen others before committing suicide.

Marc Lépine had a very troubled childhood including an abusive father and had left a note blaming feminism for all the failures in his life, including his aforementioned rejection from the engineering school. However, his failure to gain admission to the École Polytechnique was because he had not completed the necessary prerequisite courses.

During his parents' divorce, his mother told the court at their divorce hearing that her husband, an Algerian immigrant, "had a total disdain for women and believed they were intended only to serve men." After the divorce, he changed his name from Gamil Gharbi to Marc Lépine.

The massacre profoundly shocked citizens of Quebec and Canada. The Quebec government and the Montreal city government declared three days of mourning.

Initial news reports did not note that all 14 victims were women. When Lépine's motive became clear, the event served as a massive spur for the Canadian feminist movement and for action against violence against women. December 6 is now observed as a memorial day, especially in Montreal; in 1991 Parliament officially designated December 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. A white or purple ribbon is used as a symbol of December 6 memorials. In Ottawa a memorial to victims of violence against women was erected as a reaction.

The aftermath was especially hard on the students and the support staff that was present at the time. Many suffered from post traumatic stress disorder. The massacre was also a major spur for the Canadian gun control movement, which finally resulted in the passage of stricter gun control legislation in 1995 (in the form of Bill C-68, passed as the Firearms Act).
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Murder victims

* Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
* Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
* Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
* Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967) mechanical engineering student.
* Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
* Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
* Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
* Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
* Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
* Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
* Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
* Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
* Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
* Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.

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