The horrifying scenes coming from Montreal's Dawson College are eerily reminiscent of the Dec. 6, 1989, shootings by Marc Lepine who shot 27 female engineering students at the Ecole Polytechnique, killing 14, before fatally shooting himself.
The mass murder prompted tighter gun laws, including the creation of the National firearms registry. I remember how horrified I was on December 6, 1989, and today's events stirred up those same emotions.
At the time I prayed that we would never see anything similar in Canada again. It is a shame that it takes a tragedy like this to move away from the Conservative troglodyte position of dismantling the gun registry. Now, more than ever, we need to step up action to control these guns that are robbing young people of their futures.
As we saw in Bowling for Columbine, I guess this means that the NRA will be visiting Montreal soon...sigh.
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