School shooting in Montreal

lahimatoa · **Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:04 pm

Horrific school shooting in Montreal yesterday.

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Terrible tragedy. My condolences to the families affected.

StrongRad · **Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:10 pm

Very yes... That was horrible.

Fortunately, he didn't have a myspace page, but from what I read on CNN.com, he wore black, and was a fan of vampirefreaks.com, so here comes another round of unfair scrutiny for the "goth" kids, metal music, violent video games and guns.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:01 pm

StrongRad wrote:

Very yes... That was horrible.

Fortunately, he didn't have a myspace page, but from what I read on CNN.com, he wore black, and was a fan of vampirefreaks.com, so here comes another round of unfair scrutiny for the "goth" kids, metal music, violent video games and guns.

Aww great, now im gonna get a stern talking to from my counselor.

The Jerk was wearing a Trench Coat so i guess that means i cant wear my trench coat any more, and i hope that the chick who died doesnt end up getting famous for Dying and saying everything in diaries that you hear a preacher say every sunday like that girl Rachelle Scott.

PianoManGidley · **Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:17 pm

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

...and i hope that the chick who died doesnt end up getting famous for Dying and saying everything in diaries that you hear a preacher say every sunday like that girl Rachelle Scott.

Who? Oh, wait--I don't go to church...must be why I've never heard of her.

Yeah, this sucked royally. Now it's just a matter of time until Jack Thompson starts up again, since apparently the shooter liked the Columbine video game. (But then, who honestly makes a video game for something like that? What's next, a video game where you aim to fly airplanes into buildings?)

ramrod · **Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:28 pm

It truely is sad. I read about today in the paper, and it truely shocked me. It's always sad when something like that happens.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:50 pm

PianoManGidley wrote:

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

...and i hope that the chick who died doesnt end up getting famous for Dying and saying everything in diaries that you hear a preacher say every sunday like that girl Rachelle Scott.

Who? Oh, wait--I don't go to church...must be why I've never heard of her.

Yeah, this sucked royally. Now it's just a matter of time until Jack Thompson starts up again, since apparently the shooter liked the Columbine video game. (But then, who honestly makes a video game for something like that? What's next, a video game where you aim to fly airplanes into buildings?)

that flying airplanes into buildings has allready been doen, its called MS Flight Simulator 2004.

Cant wait untill MSFS 2007!

Beyond the Grave · **Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:52 pm

I love it. A tragedy happens and COLA can only think of himself. Good job, jerky.

I have been wondering when the next shooting would happened. I always thought it would be in a high school somewhere in US, not a college in Canada. Let's see if Canada will handle this better than we do.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:56 pm

Beyond the Grave wrote:

I love it. A tragedy happens and COLA can only think of himself. Good job, jerky.

Tradgedy? 1 chick dies and some other people get skimmed by a bullet.
No, a tragedy is when two kids go into a school, set up bombs, and start opening fire with a Sawn off Shot Gun and a tec-9 and kill 12 people, including a teacher.

That, my friend, is a tragedy.

StrongRad · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:00 am

Beyond the Grave wrote:

I love it. A tragedy happens and COLA can only think of himself. Good job, jerky.

I have been wondering when the next shooting would happened. I always thought it would be in a high school somewhere in US, not a college in Canada. Let's see if Canada will handle this better than we do.

Nope.. They probably can't.
In America, the first step is to draft legislation that tightly restricts firearms ownership rights.
They've already done that in Canada. Doesn't look like it helped much in this case..

Beyond the Grave · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:00 am

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

That, my friend, is a tragedy.

Don't be talking about tragedies. You are talking to someone who almost created one.

StrongRad · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:01 am

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

Beyond the Grave wrote:

I love it. A tragedy happens and COLA can only think of himself. Good job, jerky.

Tradgedy? 1 chick dies and some other people get skimmed by a bullet.

Get "skimmed" by a bullet and spend a couple days in intensive care and we'll see how non-tragic you think it is..

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:03 am

Beyond the Grave wrote:

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

That, my friend, is a tragedy.

Don't be talking about tragedies. You are talking to someone who almost created one.

ooo, let me guess, your the Reb and VoDKa of the North. :rolleyes:

Beyond the Grave · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:18 am

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

ooo, let me guess, your the Reb and VoDKa of the North. :rolleyes:

*Takes a deep breath*

Well, I was hoping I would never have to do this on here but I guess I have to.

Back in 8th grade I was picked on unmercifully. It was horrible, to make things worse no one would help me, not even the teachers. So one day when it was really bad, I told some of my bullies that I was going to bring a gun in and kill them. I went home that night and loaded my dad's old Army rifle. It was a six-shot rifle and I filled it. The next morning before I got the bus I put it in my coat, but as I did I questioned myself on the ramifications. I asked myself "Is my taste for revenge that powerful that I would throw my life away for it?" I answered no and put the gun away. When I got to school, I was told to go to the vice principal's. When I got there I held nothing back. I told the entire truth about it, and the VP turned an expulsion into three days of In-School Suspension. There was a silver lining to all of this though: No one bothered me for the rest of the school year. I also have no regrets about it. In fact I will go as far to say it was the smartest thing I have ever done.

So when ever I here about a school shooting that invovled a kid who was bullied, I feel some sympathy for them having been in a similar situation.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:24 am

Beyond the Grave wrote:

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

ooo, let me guess, your the Reb and VoDKa of the North. :rolleyes:

*Takes a deep breath*

Well, I was hoping I would never have to do this on here but I guess I have to.

Back in 8th grade I was picked on unmercifully. It was horrible, to make things worse no one would help me, not even the teachers. So one day when it was really bad, I told some of my bullies that I was going to bring a gun in and kill them. I went home that night and loaded my dad's old Army rifle. It was a six-shot rifle and I filled it. The next morning before I got the bus I put it in my coat, but as I did I questioned myself on the ramifications. I asked myself "Is my taste for revenge that powerful that I would throw my life away for it?" I answered no and put the gun away. When I got to school, I was told to go to the vice principal's. When I got there I held nothing back. I told the entire truth about it, and the VP turned an expulsion into three days of In-School Suspension. There was a silver lining to all of this though: No one bothered me for the rest of the school year. I also have no regrets about it. In fact I will go as far to say it was the smartest thing I have ever done.

So when ever I here about a school shooting that invovled a kid who was bullied, I feel some sympathy for them having been in a similar situation.

You've earned my respect. ive been feeling the same latley too, and youve shown me what an idiot i am.
Thanks.
I gotta go away for a while, rethink some things.

StrongRad · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:34 am

Beyond the Grave wrote:

So when ever I here about a school shooting that invovled a kid who was bullied, I feel some sympathy for them having been in a similar situation.

Seems to me that you WOULDN'T show them any sympathy.. You were in their situation and you chose the "higher road".

IantheGecko · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:27 am

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

The Jerk was wearing a Trench Coat so i guess that means i cant wear my trench coat any more, and i hope that the chick who died doesnt end up getting famous for Dying and saying everything in diaries that you hear a preacher say every sunday like that girl Rachelle Scott.

You mean Cassie Bernall?

Cola, that was very insensitive of you. This was a tragedy, and you're worried about a coat?!? I think you're exaggerating the stuff about Cassie Bernall, by the way. Besides, I'm from Colorado myself. Any mention of Columbine hits me hard.

ramrod · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:42 am

COLA, I'd like you to please think before you post. Sometimes you ca come off as insesitive and plain moronic. I'm not calling you either, but all I'm saying is to step back for a moment and think.

Beyond the Grave · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:49 am

StrongRad wrote:

Beyond the Grave wrote:

So when ever I here about a school shooting that invovled a kid who was bullied, I feel some sympathy for them having been in a similar situation.

Seems to me that you WOULDN'T show them any sympathy.. You were in their situation and you chose the "higher road".

I sympathize with them because I know what it's like to be pushed to the edge. I just wish they not crossed it.

Mr. Sparkle · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:11 am

Since we're on the topic of bullying, let me say I've never been bullied. Well, not really, I have been bullied. They weren't very good, they just couldn't do it right, too easily deterrable.

As for this guy, too bad that person had to die, as for the goth-man: eh.

Ninti · **Joined:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:35 pm **Posts:** 3094

Guys... Why are you whining about coats and video games? Someone died. And all you can think about is about how you're going to suffer.

IantheGecko · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:21 am

Hey, that was just COLA, alright?

Just don't say anything bad about Columbine around me, please. EVERYONE. Thank you.

StrongRad · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:41 am

nintendogs123 wrote:

Guys... Why are you whining about coats and video games? Someone died. And all you can think about is about how you're going to suffer.

I'm not talking about how I'm going to suffer. It won't really affect me.

I'm just saying that it's sad that there's going to be people who use this to their own ends and vilify things that they dislike.
I'm not trying to take anything away from the death. That's bad..

PianoManGidley · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:54 am

StrongRad wrote:

nintendogs123 wrote:

Guys... Why are you whining about coats and video games? Someone died. And all you can think about is about how you're going to suffer.

I'm not talking about how I'm going to suffer. It won't really affect me.

I'm just saying that it's sad that there's going to be people who use this to their own ends and vilify things that they dislike.
I'm not trying to take anything away from the death. That's bad..

Ditto to those sentiments. That's what was behind my whole Jack Thompson comment.

Oh, and FYI, back in grade school, I had many, MANY homicidal and suicidal thoughts. There were many days when I came very close to bringing a knife to school so I could stab everyone who wouldn't leave me alone for being different...which was pretty much everyone I knew. I fantasized about it plenty of times. For a period of about 5 years, there wasn't a week that went by that I didn't find myself holding a knife to my wrists. And in 7th grade, I found my father's gun, loaded it, put it to my left temple and pulled the trigger...only to realize that you can't kill yourself with an air pistol.

Oh, and in 10th grade, I spent an interesting lunch break with two of my friends talking about what it would take to bomb our high school. We found out that it wouldn't take very much.

So yeah--I know very well those feelings of being pushed to the edge and of wanting to just hurt people. I guess I never really went through with it because I've always been too much of a coward.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:25 pm

welp, it turns out the guy played the Super Columbien Massacre RPG.
since my father is a reporter, he's probably gonna search my computer to see if ive been playing it, which i have, but its not the point.
The guys over at the games WebSite are probably gonna have to be fending off DDoSsers and reporters and Videogame killers for the next ccoupla weeks. I admit, its a tradgedy because someone else died from it today, but whats more important to me is that videogames are going to be put under even more Scrutiny than they allready are.

ChickenLeg · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:59 pm

I don't really know what to say, but since this is all I can summarize, I'll do it.

In the end, 9 people were hurt, all of which could die.

The one thing I can't help but think is that now people wearing black who enjoy video games will be ostrasized by peers and authorities. After all that hard work of getting rid of the sterotype, too.

Didymus · **Posted:** Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:44 am

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

I admit, its a tradgedy because someone else died from it today, but whats more important to me is that videogames are going to be put under even more Scrutiny than they allready are.

Let me get this straight: are you saying that video games are more important to you than human life?

PianoManGidley · **Posted:** Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:02 am

Didymus wrote:

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

I admit, its a tradgedy because someone else died from it today, but whats more important to me is that videogames are going to be put under even more Scrutiny than they allready are.

Let me get this straight: are you saying that video games are more important to you than human life?

I think he's saying as we said above that people, in their fear and rage, are going to unnecessarily attack things in our world that ought not be attacked because of this. They're going to let their emotional state and already-established personal grievances against things they don't fully understand (like video games) get them to act against said things, meaning that their fear will not only be controlling their own lives, but through them, potentially controlling the lives of the rest of society (or at least a significant portion of it) in a negative fashion.

You might argue that these people's call-to-arms against anything that could be construed as being potentially harmful and unsafe for our society isn't as big a deal as the shooting itself, but I contest that fear of a negative action has a much more powerful effect on guiding the actions and thoughts of a people than perhaps even the negative action itself.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:37 am

PianoManGidley wrote:

Didymus wrote:

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest wrote:

I admit, its a tradgedy because someone else died from it today, but whats more important to me is that videogames are going to be put under even more Scrutiny than they allready are.

Let me get this straight: are you saying that video games are more important to you than human life?

I think he's saying as we said above that people, in their fear and rage, are going to unnecessarily attack things in our world that ought not be attacked because of this. They're going to let their emotional state and already-established personal grievances against things they don't fully understand (like video games) get them to act against said things, meaning that their fear will not only be controlling their own lives, but through them, potentially controlling the lives of the rest of society (or at least a significant portion of it) in a negative fashion.

You might argue that these people's call-to-arms against anything that could be construed as being potentially harmful and unsafe for our society isn't as big a deal as the shooting itself, but I contest that fear of a negative action has a much more powerful effect on guiding the actions and thoughts of a people than perhaps even the negative action itself.

I Salute You!

IantheGecko · **Posted:** Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:17 am

Sidebar: It's spelled Columbine, COLA. You could have copied & pasted it.

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:20 am

IantheGecko wrote:

Sidebar: It's spelled Columbine, COLA. You could have copied & pasted it.

Spelling Nazi.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/ ... 4-sun.html

Well the Winnipeg Sun seems to have labled the guy who made the game as more responsible for the shooting than the shooter.

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