Originally Posted by hadden

Originally Posted by CDSmith

If we're going to start in about school shootings (which this clearly wasn't), here's an interesting true story.... The first time I ever heard of this happening was in the late 70's. The term "school shooting" hadn't even been invented yet. The older brother of a girl I was in Jr high with took his dad's shotgun to school one day. When challenged by his art/drafting teacher he told him he was intending to draw the gun. A short time later he blasted one of his classmates with it, after which the gun jammed. Since he was bullied by more than just the one guy people have wondered (including myself) just how many kids would have gotten killed that day.

It's a long read but worth it.... When school shootings were unthinkable - Winnipeg Free Press
Mostly written from the perspective of a teacher who was actually there that day.

Btw, Vaughan Pollen, the student who killed fellow student Ken Maitland with one blast from a shotgun, was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

This went down a good 20-odd years before "Columbine" and all those high-profile ones covered by CNN in the 90's.

I got curious one day a few years back and looked up the history of school shootings around the world and was quite surprised at the stats. To see countries like Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Australia, etc on the list was quite surprising to me. The US may have the most of any other country but more happen outside of America than you might think.

School shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some of the earliest ones listed happened as far back as the 1880's. Banning of guns doesn't seem to determine which countries will or won't have school shootings.

Originally Posted by AaronM

Who cares?

Here's what I find interesting....

"some 20yr old kid had a fight at home, stabbed someone... left his house on foot, took a loaded pistol. left his loaded (and completely illegal) ak47 at home...

was wandering through the trails out here...

realised cops were after him, carjacked a lady

raced up the hill, got caught.

to my understanding, no shots fired at all today"


Hand guns and AK-47's in Canada? Say it's not so!

Originally Posted by kronic

I remember that, and read that exact article a few months ago.

I was telling someone that Winnipeg had a school shooting years ago and they didn't believe me, so I sent them that link. Good ol' Sturgeon Creek.

People were FREAKING out at the time I recall, but I was only ten, so don't remember much other than the headlines...and asking my parents if I should still go to school lol.