The Solution To Columbine Syndrome

" The Columbine syndrome is the psychosis of using video games as a similcarum for reality. As we saw at Dawson College. But have no fear capitalism provides the virtual solution.Computer Games Prepare Battlefield Medics"

Tories Get Tough On Crime Logic

"".I believe that violent offenders deserve more than a slap on the wrist. People who commit serious crimes deserve a harsher penalty than sitting back and enjoying the comforts of home." Problem is what kind of minimum sentence do you give to a guy who commits a...

The Spectre of Charles Whitman

"As I wrote on the case of the murderous teenage couple in Medicine Hat earlier this year, who paralled the Charles Starkweather murders almost fifty years before there is an earlier cultural archtype for the campus shooter in the Charles Whitman case."

Gill In the Armed Forces

"The Dawson College killer had a brief stint in the Canadian Armed Forces. Showing again the authoritarian personality that would be evoked this week in Montreal."

Stupid Gun Argument

" I was waiting for this...As was said on this site here, the firearm registry did not save Anastacia DeSousa. But guns in the hands of the Dawson students could have."

Kim Campbell Redux

"Remember that famous line from former Conservative PM Kim Campbell that "an election is no time to discuss serious issues". I Well it looks like history is repeating itself. Harper said it wasn't the time to discuss government policies. Harper, Charest don't see...

Cuddly Bobbie Rae

"In response to the Dawson College shootings Liberal Leadership Candidate Bob Rae appeared with his teddy bear in hand. "It's an absolutely bewildering event. I guess we'll reflect on what it means," said Liberal leadership candidate Bob Rae, reached last night....

Never Give Up Never Surrender

"Stephen Harper speaking the day after the massacre at Dawson College states that he and his government will blunder on trying to get rid of the Gun Registry, oh pardon me the "Long Gun Registry", to differentiate it from the handgun and automatic weapons registry. "

Life Is A Video Game

""Meet The Dawson College Shooter" "Life is a video game, you've got to die sometime." That sums it up...we are all becoming victims of Doom and other first person shooter games."