This is really a shock to me. How many Columbines does Québec need? That's three, in the past seventeen years (Polytechnique, in 1989, Concordia, in 1992, and today, at cégep Dawson), and more than enough.
Just... why? How do these things happen? What goes on in a person's head that they enter a school and start shooting people?
The suspect has been shot by policemen, and one girl died. Three others are in a critical situation, and about twenty people are in emergency blocks in several Montréal hospitals.
Just... why? Are there answers? I hear students crying on the television behind me.
Something is rotten in this society, and a wake-up call needs to be made. When things like this happen, you need to wonder about the situation of people, especially young ones.
The suspect is dead, and if they don't find a note, there most likely won't be any motive found. A gratuitious shooting, how pleasant.
What makes a person tick this way? Does anyone have an answer?
2006-09-13 15:13:18 · 13 answers · asked by bloody_gothbob 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
In a society of a few million souls, some will lose the right path and find themselves in a lonely cage. They lose the sense of reality. They cries for help go unanswered. I have pity for the shooter.
What can we do similar people - ticking time bombs?
We have to learn to identify them. They're everywhere.. they're our neighbours, our brothers and sisters, our friends, etc. We need to reach out and help them get out of their fictitious world and get back their sense of reality.
It is each and everyone's responsibility to reach out and help, as opposed to ignore and forget. In this case, the shooter was ignored and forgotten in his bedroom, his own reality. One day, he came out of his room, and clashed with the real world.
Who's responsibility was it?
In College, they were calling him the terrorist. Right there, we know that someone is being marginalized. Why didn't anyone step in and reach out for this guy? Because... it's easier to ignore and forget.
2006-09-18 03:56:21 · answer #1 · answered by Limon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand what kind od force, what kind of will power forces a gun into a human's hanf to start shooting at people. I guess it's something we will never understand. It's just really terrible. Guns should be banned. Only cops should own them. I dont know. It's to easy for a person to go out and get a gun. You never know in who's hands it could end up with. Something's wrong here. But now, I believe there is actually 7 people that are in a critical situation hanging on the thread of life and death. It's also like a wake up call, in a way. You realizes the things that matter most. Or how you Could really lose everything in a blink of an eye.
2006-09-16 11:46:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been on this planet for a mere 15 years. What scares me is that I was completely unfazed by this. Everyday, the news is filled with death, destruction, loss. It is this sort of thing that I think could drive a person off the edge. Sure, we will find out in the coming days why he apparently did it, but the only one who can tell for sure is the shooter. But he's dead. If the police had managed to subdue him another way, and he could somehow give an explanation, I think it would have given more closure to the victims.
Remember all who tragically died in the Columbines and Dawsons of the world.
2006-09-13 22:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by blacksheepmatt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm in as just as much shock and torment as you are...Anytime things like this happen, I just feel for all these people...but this time it hit home...
When the shootings that killed 14 innocent women at Polytechnique occured I was only 5 yrs old...but this time it hit somewhere where I knew people at... I called my brother's friends to see if they were alright, as some of them attend school there...I was relieved to know that they were fine....and then hearing that so many people are in critical condition and that a young woman, at the prime of her life, died, that is just too much to fathom...My sympathies go out to her family and friends...This is one of those things we look at and say "But weren't there no signs"!!!!
He was 25 years old, and so far no one who saw him said they knew of him, or seen of him in the school...so who is this guy? and why is he goign after innocent teenagers?! Why?!!! That's the question of the day...what pushed this man to do such an atrocious act?!
I truly believe that no motive he could have given if captured alive, would have satisfied anyone, even for closure purposes...how could it after all?!!! Did Levine's confession of hating women and blaming them for his failures bring closure to the families of the victims???!!! That is not for me to answer, but still just a thought!
My opinion is that people like this are PSYCHOPATHS by the psychological definition of the word...I remember studying this in one of my psych classes...we got to psychopathy, I remember reading how people like this are just born with no conscious...children of evil is what I call them...
2006-09-14 00:03:52 · answer #4 · answered by I_M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately no one really knows why people freak out and go on these kind of rampages. It is a serious social issue and it seems to be getting more popular.
It would be good to see some sort of metal / weapon detector at every opening of doorways in every school / college/ university.
That might give people a few extra seconds to get out of the area of the gun toting butt head.
I wish these people would just get help or do themselves in instead of killing others.
2006-09-13 22:25:17 · answer #5 · answered by smilingmick 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wish i knew
why can't people just talk things out? there'd be no wars and this stupid shooting crap...and much less people would die...
i mean, every day, you see headings of like '26 dead in baghdad after car bomb' ...almost EVERY DAY
and it's soooooo sad for the parents who have to know their kids died that way...weird to think that this happened just after the 5 yr anniversary of 9/1...i can't believe it's been 5 yrs since that!!
i wish i could answer ur question, but i don't think anyone can...:-(
2006-09-13 22:22:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a big question. Why these things happen? Even the government couldn't answer this question.
These sick people or monsters are really mentally troubled and don't realize that killing is not the solution to their problems.
I do hope that lessons will be learned in this sad tragedy:
"Possession of firearms is already a tragedy waiting to happen, either you can kill someone or you will be killed."
2006-09-13 22:52:13 · answer #7 · answered by Mercy P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dont know what makes them tick but i know one thing for a fact is that they were on drugs for SURE. they had to be sick in the HEAD!!! nobody with a heart and mind would ever have the urge to kill people. its just so disgusting that there are many people like him in this world. they could be living down the street or maybe you saw them once begging for some money . its so shocking and disturbing. i hope they rot in hell.
2006-09-14 01:08:06 · answer #8 · answered by lauren 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To clear things up the shooter shot himself in the end.
2006-09-16 20:05:27 · answer #9 · answered by pixie_thing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://au.news.yahoo.com/060914/19/10j69.html
This gunman deserved 2 be shot, i don't CARE what problems he may have been suffering, his suffering is nothing compared to the torment that those students will face for the rest of their lifes,.
You will get people saying.. Ohh.. he wasn't responsible he was mentally unwell.. well ****! that is no excuse!!
Why didn't his parents pick up on this?..
He was obviously on drugs or wanted attention, Society needs a wake up call.
2006-09-13 22:18:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋