Thursday, September 14, 2006
Montreal
The shootings at Dawson College brought make memories of Columbine High School and the Marc Lepine massacre from 1989. These acts of cowardice and needless violence affect us all. We try to come to grips as to what would cause these loners to go over the edge, how can they hate themselves and their fellow brothers & sisters so much that they are willing to brandish a gun and take another person's life?
I'm not sure if it's sick curiosity, but I decided to find Kimveer Gill's Vampirefreaks.com profile, a place that is a forum for the goth lifetstyle. Mostly to see what he wrote, what pictures he posted and what types of people he was communicating with. What was going through his mind the few moments before he decided to trek to Dawson College?
His last journal entires don't tell much. He has one post where he jokes about having whiskey in the morning, his previous post mentions he's going to have eggs and toast for breakfast. Interesting as those posts were written the day of the shootings, as they are non-threating, they show no anger and certainly doesn't indicate he's about to go on a murderous rampage. Almost every post prior to that is the exact opposite.
He made a HUGE list of things he hates, and no one is spared. He even mentions "the world" and also says many times he's ashamed to be human. He talks about how much he hates bullies and goes on with similar rhetoric about jocks. He does seem to care about one thing: His VF (vampirefreak) girls. I'm guessing he chats with them from time to time, I didn't read enough entries to see if he actually met any in person. He posts results from different quizzes, one where he is told he has an "86% chance" of killing someone, another which states on the evil meter he is "pure evil". The photos of him holding his automatic weapons, knives and trenchcoat attire are very eerie.
I guess all this "investigation" is about one thing: looking for answers. We won't find them in this case, likely. Much like we still don't know why those kids at Columbine decided to take matters into their own hands and kill people, then kill themselves.
Was there anything anyone could do to stop him? Wasn't anybody reading what this guy was writing down and realizing he was a ticking time bomb? He was a young man obviously crying for help, perhaps so far gone that, at this point, any attempts to make him realize our lives are worth living would be fruitless. What was the event or events that made him feel this way?
We'll never know. Here's hoping another tragedy like this never happens again.
I'm not sure if it's sick curiosity, but I decided to find Kimveer Gill's Vampirefreaks.com profile, a place that is a forum for the goth lifetstyle. Mostly to see what he wrote, what pictures he posted and what types of people he was communicating with. What was going through his mind the few moments before he decided to trek to Dawson College?
His last journal entires don't tell much. He has one post where he jokes about having whiskey in the morning, his previous post mentions he's going to have eggs and toast for breakfast. Interesting as those posts were written the day of the shootings, as they are non-threating, they show no anger and certainly doesn't indicate he's about to go on a murderous rampage. Almost every post prior to that is the exact opposite.
He made a HUGE list of things he hates, and no one is spared. He even mentions "the world" and also says many times he's ashamed to be human. He talks about how much he hates bullies and goes on with similar rhetoric about jocks. He does seem to care about one thing: His VF (vampirefreak) girls. I'm guessing he chats with them from time to time, I didn't read enough entries to see if he actually met any in person. He posts results from different quizzes, one where he is told he has an "86% chance" of killing someone, another which states on the evil meter he is "pure evil". The photos of him holding his automatic weapons, knives and trenchcoat attire are very eerie.
I guess all this "investigation" is about one thing: looking for answers. We won't find them in this case, likely. Much like we still don't know why those kids at Columbine decided to take matters into their own hands and kill people, then kill themselves.
Was there anything anyone could do to stop him? Wasn't anybody reading what this guy was writing down and realizing he was a ticking time bomb? He was a young man obviously crying for help, perhaps so far gone that, at this point, any attempts to make him realize our lives are worth living would be fruitless. What was the event or events that made him feel this way?
We'll never know. Here's hoping another tragedy like this never happens again.
# posted by SBP : 10:45 PM
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Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Genlty they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I d not approve. And I am not resigned. -Edna St.vincent Millay-poet.
I second "hope this never happens again"
As far as knowing why this happened or happens we never will in some cases. And this terrifies most people. I have studied serial killers and mass murderers for major presentations and papers in High school, bc I found their thought patterns to be –terrifying- but very fascinating.
What I found -and this is not my theory it has been researched by many, but I do believe it to be true- is that the first thing that we do when there is a tragedy of this nature is to find an answer as to why. We feel that if there is some answer behind it then that will comfort us and make us feel safe, that this wasn’t a random act and that it won’t happen to us. Did his father beat him? Was he tortured by some sibling? Was he schizophrenic?....
Unfortunately there are not always answers as to why an individual would do something so cowardly and horrible as to walk in to a group of strangers and open fire on them… We must sometimes realize that in human nature there is something dark and some have it more then others and some act on it like this guy, where the majority of us would never allow it to cross their mind.
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I second "hope this never happens again"
As far as knowing why this happened or happens we never will in some cases. And this terrifies most people. I have studied serial killers and mass murderers for major presentations and papers in High school, bc I found their thought patterns to be –terrifying- but very fascinating.
What I found -and this is not my theory it has been researched by many, but I do believe it to be true- is that the first thing that we do when there is a tragedy of this nature is to find an answer as to why. We feel that if there is some answer behind it then that will comfort us and make us feel safe, that this wasn’t a random act and that it won’t happen to us. Did his father beat him? Was he tortured by some sibling? Was he schizophrenic?....
Unfortunately there are not always answers as to why an individual would do something so cowardly and horrible as to walk in to a group of strangers and open fire on them… We must sometimes realize that in human nature there is something dark and some have it more then others and some act on it like this guy, where the majority of us would never allow it to cross their mind.
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