Quote from TorontoTrader2:
Can we consider the US to be a "Failed state"?
Violence at home and abroad is out of control, the government is a corrupt military regime, citizens' basic needs (health care etC) are not met, and so on.
but hey, I "hate and or am jealous of your freedoms"
So, is Canada a failed state too?
Sept. 13, 2006
Dawson College: Montreal
An injured person is wheeled away from Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989 after gunman Marc Lepine opened fire at the university. Rifle fire echoing down the halls of a Montreal college on Wednesday conjured instant memories of Lepineâs horrific rampage almost 17 years ago. (Shaney Komulainen/Canadian Press) A young man opens fire outside Dawson College, a CEGEP serving about 10,000 students in downtown Montreal, and then continues the rampage inside the school. Witnesses describe seeing a tall skinny youth with a Mohawk haircut walk into the cafeteria shortly before 1 p.m. ET carrying a large gun. The shooter, Kimveer Gill, 25, lived in a borough of Laval north of Montreal. He killed himself in a confrontation with police inside the school. One woman is killed, 18-year-old Anastasia DeSousa, and 19 people are wounded, at least six critically. They range in age from 17 to 48, according to police.
April 28, 1999:
W. R. Myers High School, Taber, Alta.
A 14-year-old boy opens fire with a .22-calibre rifle inside W. R. Myers High School in Taber, an Alberta town about 200 kilometres southeast of Calgary. The boy, who can't be named because of his age at the time of the crime, kills student Jason Lang, 17. Another student, Shane Christmas, 17, is wounded, but recovers from his injuries. The shooting takes place a week after the Columbine High School massacre.
Dec. 6, 1989:
L'Ãcole Polytechnique, Montreal
Marc Lépine, 25, walks into a classroom at Montreal's l'Ãcole Polytechnique engineering school, separates the men from the women and tells the men to leave. Then he begins shooting from a semi-automatic military weapon, shouting "I want women" as he roams the school's floors. Lépine kills 13 female students and a college employee, and injures 13 others before committing suicide. He had purchased a semi-automatic, a Ruger Mini-14, to carry out his assault. The ease with which he had acquired it and carried out the assault leads to the creation of pressure groups, which eventually forces the federal government to set up a national gun control registry.
