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It was seventeen years ago today that a man walked into a college in Montreal with guns in tow, separated the men and the women and proceeded to murder 14 women and injuring numerous others while yelling “I hate feminists.”
And then, like the dog he was, this man shot himself.
The anniversary of this event is always hard – especially in this city where the blood was shed.
And it serves to remind me of the devastating destructive power of hate. Hate not just in its form of slaughter but in its every expression. And perhaps it is appropriate that today the Canadian conservatives in power are trying to take away gay marriage. Hate whether exercised through violence or through politics is still the scourge that we seem to never be able to defeat.
And then, like the dog he was, this man shot himself.
The anniversary of this event is always hard – especially in this city where the blood was shed.
And it serves to remind me of the devastating destructive power of hate. Hate not just in its form of slaughter but in its every expression. And perhaps it is appropriate that today the Canadian conservatives in power are trying to take away gay marriage. Hate whether exercised through violence or through politics is still the scourge that we seem to never be able to defeat.
posted by Rye at 9:26 a.m.
1 Comments:
Damn, I never heard about that. Of course I was only nine at the time. Definitely shows that random acts of violence isn't just a by-product of American culture.
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