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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3065697" data-attributes="member: 704">Given the anecdotes I have heard about Montreal, I dont think that Vancouver automatically wins the prize for 'most recreational drug use in canada' quite that easily, heh.I am guessing that this guy was a ticking time bomb, and that he had this idea floating in his head for some time.  I dont think that the problem is that this guy obtained a gun, or was goth.  I think that the problem at its root is that this man was just too stupid to realize that his unhappy state was pretty much entirely of his own making.The gunman was a 25 year old man.  That he chose to go and shoot up Quebec's equivalent of a high school tells me that this is the goth lunatic equivalent of a washed up high school athelete who and cannot let the past go.  He may very well have been picked on in school, but unless this guy failed 7 or 8 times, there was no way he was still a student.  Once your out of high school, how wonderful or crappy your life is usally has more to do with what you choose to do than how your grew up.  There are exceptions, but I doubt this is one of them.The problem as I see it is not flawed gun laws or even high school bullying.  The problem is that too many people go through high school without realizing how utterly trivial and transitory high school really is in the greater scheme of things.  High school does suck more for some people than it does for others, but it does end, either with graduating or dropping out.  And once your out of high school, you pretty much never have to see anyone you went to school with ever again unless you actually want to.It just p*sses me off to no end to think that one person died, and many others were badly injured, just because some idiot could not get past how crappy his high school experience was that he allowed the rest of his life to suck and then tried to end the lives of others.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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