BREAKING NEWS: Montreal school shooting 2 kill, 20 inj

[conestogo_flood]

Police are moving to a building near the school where a third gunmen may be located. Just speculation right now, but police are surrounding the building.

[CajunMama]

This is just sickening that someone can go into a school and do this. Thanks for the updates conestogo

[O Town]

Very tragic. Unreal.

[conestogo_flood]

New patients being brought into the trauma centre at a hospital in Montreal.

Two patients undergoing emergency surgery.

[conestogo_flood]

Montreal General Hospital, 15 patients- 6 critical, 2 serious, 7 stable.

[conestogo_flood]

Report, someone was shot in the head.

[artist]

watch live -

http://www.cbc.ca/listen/

[dizzyfish]

This is just awful!! I hate hearing about this stuff - especially since I work in a high school. It's just sick! I wonder if it was kids or adults that did the shooting.

[Miss Mary]

dizzy - same here. I work at a Middle School (7th and 8th Graders). We had 9 bomb threats last year - all pranks though. Just kids wanting to get out of class. One of the last ones, they marched them all outside (1500 + students), had them sit in groups on the pavement. It started to rain at one point and they kept them outside while the Sheriff's Dept and search dogs did their work - which found nothing - thankfully. After this tragic story though, in the back of all our minds (at work), it makes you question - is this one legit? Haven't had one this school year....yet.

It is sick frustrated students would go to such extremes and take innocents lives like this. I heard this is a large campus - with 10,000 students.

[artist]

one witness said on eo fthe shooters looked around 19.

[Cyclenall]

Thankfully, 4 people did not get killed, only one which was one of the gunmen. 20 people are inj now.

[GalvestonDuck]

Thankfully, 4 people did not get killed, only one which was one of the gunmen. 20 people are inj now.

But 6 are critical. Sadly, that could still mean more deaths. I pray not. It just depends upon the wounds...and the will of the victim.

[wxmann_91]

I'm praying and hoping the injured will recover. How sad that this type of event would happen.

[SamSagnella]

Official reports are now confirming that a) there was a single shooter who was killed by the police, and b) a "female victim, believed to be 18-years-old, died from her wounds in hospital." The total casualties are now 2 dead (gunman) 19 injured, of which 6 are already in or being prepped for surgery.

[Josephine96]

Time for me to chime in about the events yesterday. 1 of the eyewitnesses came across to me as perhaps the reason this guy went on a rampage. Before you blast me.. Just listen

If I'm not mistaken.. the young woman, obviously hysterical while describing the gentleman said he had a "retarded haircut".

Excuse me.. But um.. NO.. Criticism and hatred of a bully is only what drives bullies to do cowardly acts like this. Either that, or this kid was tired of being teased. I AM NOT defending the shooter.. But come on now, quit stereotyping people. quit picking on young men or women over something as stupid as a haircut, sneakers, or appearance.

If young people would quit disrespecting young people to a point where it belittles them.. then we wouldn't have jerks like this shooting up schools and what not.

Ok.. steps off soapbox.. {end rant}

[TexasStooge]

I think this may be the reason:
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Montreal Gunman Wrote of Death, Hatred

Montreal Gunman's Postings Filled With Thoughts of Hatred and Death; Described Mood As 'Crazy'

By PHIL COUVRETTE / Associated Press

MONTREAL (ABC News/AP)— A man with a black trench coat whose shooting rampage in a Montreal college killed one person and wounded 19 others before he was slain by police said on a blog in his name that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine shootings.

The gunman who opened fire at Dawson College on Wednesday was Kimveer Gill, 25, of Laval, near Montreal, a police official said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because authorities were not ready to announce it publicly yet. He also said police had searched Gill's home.

More on this story here.

[furluvcats]

Thanks for the article texas stooge...

so sickening...

[Pburgh]

Criticism and hatred, being made fun of, belittling, namecalling ----- these have always been a part of life. I'm not saying it is right. We have all gone thru something like this in one way or another. BUT, that gives NO ONE the excuse to take a gun and go on a shooting spree. I don't care how bad they have made you feel. It's called self control. It's realizing that their is a consequence to your actions or reactions. I don't remember this happening much prior to 1990. It's a recent occurrence. Why is that?

[O Town]

Criticism and hatred, being made fun of, belittling, namecalling ----- these have always been a part of life. I'm not saying it is right. We have all gone thru something like this in one way or another. BUT, that gives NO ONE the excuse to take a gun and go on a shooting spree. I don't care how bad they have made you feel. It's called self control.

Couldn't agree more.

Very informative article on the situation stooge, thanks.

[GalvestonDuck]

Criticism and hatred, being made fun of, belittling, namecalling ----- these have always been a part of life. I'm not saying it is right. We have all gone thru something like this in one way or another. BUT, that gives NO ONE the excuse to take a gun and go on a shooting spree. I don't care how bad they have made you feel. It's called self control. It's realizing that their is a consequence to your actions or reactions. I don't remember this happening much prior to 1990. It's a recent occurrence. Why is that?

Maybe it seems to happen more often now because we hear about it more often on a national and global scale with the internet and 24-hour news channels. But I'm sure there were quite a few cases before the 1990's. I think the term "going postal" was first popularized in the late 80's/early 90's (of course, more often than not, they aren't even postal workers...it's just a sad misnomer for the crime).

Charles Whitman, the UT-Austin tower sniper, committed his shooting spree in 1966. There was the McDonald's massacre in '84. Some of them are "rage killings" that occur in concert with suicidal plans. The person is filled with a sense of hatred for himself after years of bullying from others. He feels his life is worthless after repeatedly being told so. Then he begins to hate the world as well. In an effort to put an end to those feelings, he takes it out on outsiders before taking himself out...or letting police do it for him.

If people would communicate more with others instead of dropping off into their loner worlds and living between their ears, only listening to the negative thoughts in their heads playing over and over, maybe they wouldn't feel so danged despondent about life and could cope better with the problems around them. Same for those of us on the listening end -- communication is a two-way street. If we'd offer an ear once in a while, perhaps we could stop a suicidal or homicidal person from reaching the end of their hope. (well, that was a typo, but it fits so I'm going to leave it.)