Montreal Shooting

As everybody must know by now, there was a shooting in Montreal today, at Dawson College. I'm not going to describe what happened, Yahoo! does a much better job. I only have a few things to say: first of all, I was very impressed with the way Concordia came to the Dawson students' aid, offering them shelter (as the subway trains didn't work for a few hours), food and counseling (the college is a 10-minute walk away from the university). Second of all, I cannot understand how it was possible for a madman to walk with a huge machine gun in plain daylight without anyone alerting the police? Actually, I think I know part of the answer, at least: we don't look around, we don't care what's going on as long as it doesn't affect us... and I could go on for a long time. My last rhetorical question: what kind of an animal... sorry, what kind of a dirt bag do you have to be to open fire against innocent teenagers? How sick must one be to do something like this? Teenagers, children, adults, it doesn't matter.. how is it possible?

God rest the poor girl's soul! I truly hope that everyone else recovers and that something like this doesn't happen again.

Last thing, I promise: why aren't guns illegal? Why can anyone possess a gun? To protect themselves?!!! From what? If there were no guns, if only the police were allowed to use them, we would have nothing to deffend ourselves against. What about the good old pepper spray? Or the eve older kick in the sensitive place? Yeah, yeah, I know, there would be gun smugglers, anyway. Oh, give me a break, I don't feel like being reasonable right now!