Montreal Massacre

  

  To honour those who died in the 1989 Montreal Massacre, people wore white ribbons.

 

   On December 6th, 1989, there was a Montreal Massacre at the Montreal's École Polytechnique. The gunman, Marc Lepine, aged 25, entered a full classroom of 60 students. He lined the men up on one wall and women on another. He then told the men to leave the room threatening everyone with a .22-calibre rifle. This carried on for three floors. When he was in the halls, he would shout 'I want women'. Before he shot the women, he called the women 'Une gang de feminister. J'hais les feministers'. One of the women even pleaded that they weren't feminists, they were just students. He doesn't listen and instead shoots every women in the room. 27 women were injured,14 died, 13 people survived. Some women were lucky in enough to hide in rooms that Marc Lepine didn't enter.

I was surprised to discover...
   - threatened them with his .22-calibre rifle
   -14 out of 60 students died, 27 injured, 13 survived
   - after shooting in the classroom, he went out into the hall to shoot
   - 1 women got shot in the head and didn't even die
   - Some hid in rooms, Lepine didn't enter
   - 1 victim found on 2nd floor, 6 victim found in classroom, 4 victim in a room on 3rd floor
      3 victim found in the cafeteria on 1st floor
   - Time it happened: 3:32
   - The men thought it was all just a joke
   - Lepine was an Ecole Polytechni

The effects of the massacre left people shocked, scared, and some even felt angry. Some people can't even believe someone would enter a classroom and seperate men from women to shoot them.

The next steps that need to be addressed to the issue of violence against women is stop treating women un-fairly like don't just start hating women like Marc Lepine. Stop abusing them and you should treat them like human - beings like men. Women are just as capable of doing men job as well. Also men should stop having sex with women if they aren't ready to become a parent like don't all of a sudden leave women with a child to take care by themselves because its hard without a father.

  

Deaths of people who died because of Marc Lepine