I have only the vaguest memories of this myself, and that must be second hand. On December 6th 1989, I was probably in the jungle not getting much news. Anyway, Sciencewoman reminds us:
On December 6, 1989, an armed gunman named Marc Lepine entered an engineering classroom at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec. He demanded all 48 men in the class leave the room, lined up all 9 women against a wall...
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Ross Wilmoth writes:
Thanks for the stats Tim. Do you think that the reduction between the
1975 and 1989 surveys could be due to them being either side of the
registration legislation?
Greg Booth said:
A 1976 study put guns in 40% of Canadian households.
An Angus Reid poll in 1991 put the number at 23%.
The 1989 International Crime Survey gave 29%
“If there are things you don’t like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.” -Dave Thomas
You can check Suter's Graph 16 "International Homicide Rates
Comparisons" against the source he claims for this data (World Health
Statistics 1989). You will discover that the homicide rates for many
countries have been grossly overstated (for example, East Germany is
War on Terror, anyone? Oh wait, these were just women;
never mind.
Looking at it from an evolutionary perspective - this guy should have been hung, drawn, quartered, and impaled (I just love the rough justice of old england and transsylvania) for eliminating those girls from the gene pool.
Not to put a too fine point too it:
"Gamil's father had contempt for women and believed that they were only intended to serve men"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3%A9pine
which is an idea strongly based in religion, catholizism as well as islam. I think that might explain a few things about this arsehole.
"Marc Lépine was buried in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Montreal, a few blocks from where he committed the massacre."
I hope there are enough men with the proper attitude in montreal to meet for a "piss down" and a formal desecration on this buggers grave.
Too bad we do not have those nice three posters outside towns anymore were that type of "man" could be buried and forgotten.