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Meh, me is wondering...
After watching Bowling For Columbine, me is wondering why no one ever seems to talk about shooting sprees in Canadian schools.
In 1975 a student killed a fellow student and a teacher and wounded 13 other people at Brampton's Centennial Secondary School. I've heard first hand accounts of this event because my mother was a student there. During the shooting, she was in the caf on a lunch break. According to my mom, the shooter killed himself in the hallway between the caf and the typing class. The caf had a back door, so she could leave, but the typing students had to wait until the... hmmm... mess was cleaned up.
Remember, this was 1975... many years before the "big wave" of school violence.
And least we forget what happened at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique in 1989.
Yeah, I know Bowling For Columbine is about American Gun Culture (among other things), but we Canadians seem to forget about our own past all too quickly. :-(
You can say "it doesn't happen very often", but to claim that it never happens in Canada is utter BS.
And once again, history repeats itself...
In 1975 a student killed a fellow student and a teacher and wounded 13 other people at Brampton's Centennial Secondary School. I've heard first hand accounts of this event because my mother was a student there. During the shooting, she was in the caf on a lunch break. According to my mom, the shooter killed himself in the hallway between the caf and the typing class. The caf had a back door, so she could leave, but the typing students had to wait until the... hmmm... mess was cleaned up.
Remember, this was 1975... many years before the "big wave" of school violence.
And least we forget what happened at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique in 1989.
Yeah, I know Bowling For Columbine is about American Gun Culture (among other things), but we Canadians seem to forget about our own past all too quickly. :-(
You can say "it doesn't happen very often", but to claim that it never happens in Canada is utter BS.
And once again, history repeats itself...