Your children will be next

It has been a pensive week with the 9/11 anniversary and the shooting at Dawson College in Montreal. It's times like these that I wish I could be back in Canada remembering and mourning those events. I felt like I should have been there and not here. Although the news of the Montreal shooting reached Hong Kong news stations, I don't feel anyone but a fellow Canadian could feel or understand the significance of this event. It was was a terrible reminder of 1989 when another armed man shot and killed 14 women and injured 13 others when he went on a rampage at the University of Montreal's École Polytechnique. Seventeen years later and I'm still trying to make sense of it.

mp3: David Usher (w/ My Brilliant Beast) - If You Tolerate This (Manic Street Preachers Cover)
mp3: REM - Sweetness Follows

Comments

[Justin]

I sympathize, Andrea. News of the Dawson College shootings brought back memories of the Columbine high school massacre in my native Colorado.
There is no sense to be made of any of it, I'm afraid.

[Andrea]

Justin: thanks for your comment. I remember Columbine vividly. Of course, the shooting at Dawson College was a reminder of that as well. Kimveer Gill played a videogame based on Columbine and although I don't blame video games for this shooting, but I think that's beyond tasteless.