Thirty years ago today, a jackass whom we now would call an incel stormed the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and gunned down 14 victims, all women. In one classroom, he separated the men from the women before he opened fire. He screamed that they were all feminists and deserved to die. He killed himself before police could capture him.
It's a sobering reminder that other countries besides the United States have had horrible experiences with gun violence. But we still have the corner on mass shootings, don't we?
In her town hall on CNN last night, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi caught our attention with a vile statistic. The Democratic House has passed and sent to Mitch McConnell's desk 400 bills, none of which the Senate has taken action on. Two are companion bills on sensible gun regulation. Since their passage in the House, the Speaker said, 25,000 Americans have died in gun violence.
That is stunning. Yes, the massacre at Ecole Polytechnique continues to be a nightmarish memory for Canada. But that's 24,986 fewer gun victims than the US has had just since February. We cats HISS.
(IMAGE: From the Montreal Gazette. This victim survived.)
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