Update: Sari Stein has more on the shooting here (Hat tip: Instapundit). What I found most interesting is that Canadians seem to have no realization that violent crime exists: This same lack of awareness and realization of danger was apparent when a madman opened fire in the 1989 massacre at École Polytechnique at the University of Montreal :
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Sharon 9/13/2006 02:45PM PDT |
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4- There were some predictions on how long it would take before we started blaming the Americans. Commenter over at small dead animals reported that Jack Layton, leader of socialist NDP party, blamed American guns. |
MONTREAL SCHOOL SHOOTING: Sari Stein was in the area and has been live-blogging. "It seems from the initial reports that the today's episode bears more resemblance to the Columbine shootings and to the subsequent and oft-forgotten shooting at a high school in Taber, Alberta than to the previous Montreal shootings, but that probably won't stop anyone from drawing parallels and from suggesting that school shootings are something of an epidemic here in Montreal, despite the rarity of these episodes." And there's a big blog roundup here, too.
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Update: Sari Stein has more on the shooting here (Hat tip: Instapundit). What I found most interesting is that Canadians seem to have no realization that violent crime exists: This same lack of awareness and realization of danger was apparent when a madman opened fire in the 1989 massacre at École Polytechnique at the University of Montreal :