Remembering the Slain, not the murderer

I was driving and tuned into the radio. When I heard about a campus shooting, I thought, “Where in the USA did that happen?”

The story ended, the songs and commercials played. Then the news repeated and I heard it from the start. Canada. Quebec. Montreal. École Polytechnique

a man entered the engineering class, ordered the men out… and they left… then he shot the women.

some of the men couldn’t take it and killed themselves I read later

I had to pull over and stop the engine. I couldn’t beleive it. I couldn’t breath. I had to just sit for a long time absorbing that this was imported to Canada.

If I recall correctly, that same year or within a short time, New Zealand saw a public shooting in a tourist town and Scotland… I can barely type the words… had that man who murdered the children he’d been molesting so they couldn’t tell.

Texas Watertower reverbs around the world

Further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/feminista/1989-montreal-massacre-was-anti-feminist-attack-period

http://www.kenoraonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7312&Itemid=160

http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/photos/memorial-montreal-massacre

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2009/12/05/lessons_of_the_montreal_massacre_why_women_must_fight_to_be_what_they_want.html

 

 

even more reading:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/time-out/201312/how-many-school-shooters-can-you-name