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Shooting at Dawson College

robdamanii

OMG! <3 Tom Brady!
May 2, 2005
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50 bucks that by the evening news, this will be blamed on the video game and music industries....




People shoot for sport, have guns for protection (Never know when you'll have to use that fully auto AR-15 on 3 dozen burglars wearing head to toe body armor...), and just generally like getting a hard-on from holding something that has the power to kill another being (animal, alien, human....whatever).
Probably.

And I keep my AR-15 by my bed in case the ETs come to take my sh!t.
 

Secret Squirrel

There is no Justice!
Dec 21, 2004
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Up sh*t creek, without a paddle
...actually it varies from campus to campus. Here in Pennsylvania I've seen campus security cops driving full-on police issue cruisers with 12-gauges bolted upright to the dash in security locks. This was at Edinborough University near Erie Pa.

Here at Penn State we have a rifle team AND I just found out a rifle range on campus. One of the frats here (known as the "Tree" House) is comprised mostly of Forestry majors and go on bear hunts regularly.

I don't mind our gun laws here in the U.S. - if there were a law prohibiting the ownership of one I think it would put law abiding citizens at a huge disadvantage when it came to protection and self-defense.

Unfortunately you get someone who goes around the bend from time to time and perpetrates these kinds of horrific acts.
Right...sorry...I forgot to put in there larger campuses....'Round here we have the one big one, then it's a bunch of tech schools (like Dawson) and community colleges...They don't have the resources to do what the larger ones do. I was referring to all the smaller school campuses in my area...
 

robdamanii

OMG! <3 Tom Brady!
May 2, 2005
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Nope...usually campus security (Usually referred to as Rent-a-Cops) don't have weapons because guns aren't allowed on campus. And they're not actually law enforcement officers. The University of Washington (where I went for awhile) has their own police force with training...the whole nine yards.....so they carry weapons...but it's a campus that's the size of a small city so they can justify it.
At IC we had state deputized sheriffs (retired or specially trained as sheriffs) as our security force. I think it varies state to state.
 

JRogers

talks too much
Mar 19, 2002
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i agree but back to my comment at the begining don't everyone own a gun plus i would of thought your security guards would be armed
Most people in Canada and the US do not own guns. As others have said, campus security varies a lot. Where I went to school, campus cops carried nothing more dangerous than flashlights. At other schools I've been to, campus police are much more like legit cops.
 
just 1 question and im not starting any arguments between the USA and uk but why is there so many guns in the USA and canada
Speaking only for the USA:

Our political system was born as a revolution, so running around with guns is rooted in some pretty fundamental thought patterns.

There are a bunch of them because they're mostly legal and they're interesting machines, mechanical intricacy, action at a distance, loud noises, all that.

As population density increases, their posession and use tends to get discouraged. We argue about it a lot.

There are places where you're quite likely to get arrested for having one, and places like the town I live in, where the sound of gunfire is ordinary background and the neighbors think nothing of my standing at the road end of my driveway and shooting back up its length. Road signs often are peppered with bullet holes. Hilarie says it makes her feel more comfortable, at home, when she sees them coming back from a trip.

As others have noted, an occasional bozo goes nuts and shoots people. If you follow the news, you know that people act out similarly by driving motor vehicles into crowds or flying aeroplanes into office buildings. Screwed up people have many weapons to choose from.

Dunno if that addresses your question or not.

J
 

skinny mike

Turbo Monkey
Jan 24, 2005
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damn that is scary. i don't know if it has to do with the shooting, but there seemed to be a ton of cops around my school near the end of the day today. we didn't know what was going on.
 

Nobody

Danforth Kitchen Whore
Sep 5, 2001
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Toronto
Police tend to get paranoid about 'copy-cats' when this sort of thing occurs...

Also, I'm not entirely surprised this always happens in Montreal - huge Hell's Angels population, among other things. It's more like some strange combination of New York and Paris underground.

If you only get to Canada once, make sure it's Montreal - seriously.

Finally, there appears only one fatality - the shooter. Nice shooting, coppers! Ten points!
 

Transcend

My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
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Towing the party line.
Police tend to get paranoid about 'copy-cats' when this sort of thing occurs...

Also, I'm not entirely surprised this always happens in Montreal - huge Hell's Angels population, among other things. It's more like some strange combination of New York and Paris underground.

If you only get to Canada once, make sure it's Montreal - seriously.

Finally, there appears only one fatality - the shooter. Nice shooting, coppers! Ten points!
Yup, impressive. Good thing it wasn't like that LA police vs SUV fiasco from a year or 2 ago.
 

Nobody

Danforth Kitchen Whore
Sep 5, 2001
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Toronto
Yup, impressive. Good thing it wasn't like that LA police vs SUV fiasco from a year or 2 ago.
And for the record, i'm not bagging on Montreal - I think it's the most interesting city in Canada, and this from a guy who's lived mostly in Halifax, Toronto, Santa Barbara and Victoria/Vancouver.
 

Da Peach

Outwitted by a rodent
Jul 2, 2002
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Ian's had a retarded day at work.

Fackin TVA. They go announcing that someone died, all the other networks spread the story, then he gets a call from TVA a half hour later asking if the report of a death can be confirmed.

Way to get the scoop...
 

Nobody

Danforth Kitchen Whore
Sep 5, 2001
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Toronto
Ian's had a retarded day at work.

Fackin TVA. They go announcing that someone died, all the other networks spread the story, then he gets a call from TVA a half hour later asking if the report of a death can be confirmed.

Way to get the scoop...
dunno who Ian or TVA is... but this is what i used to confirm...

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1158141737594&call_pageid=968332188492&StarSource=RSS
 

Da Peach

Outwitted by a rodent
Jul 2, 2002
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North Van
He's public relations for all MUHC. Apparently he was in the ER full of bleeding people. Not a good day.