Quebec Grave Dancing Day

The infamous killer, Marc Lepine was born Gamil Gharbi on October 26, 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Algerian immigrant Rachid Liass Gharbi and Canadian nurse Monique Lepine. His father, who was a mutual funds salesman, was travelling in the Caribbean at the time of his son's birth. During his absence, Monique Lépine discovered evidence that her husband had been having an affair. Gharbi [father] was a non-practicing Muslim, and Monique Lépine a former Catholic nun who had rejected organized religion after she left the convent.  Gharbi, by all accounts, was an angry man who's father left when he was 7.  This is what triggered his name change to Marc Lepine.  Most described Gharbi as a non-practicing Muslim but the cultural dislike of women must of made an impact.

As a person whose life was filled with failures he soon snapped and blamed femininism and women for his lack of success.  He made plans to go into Ecole Polytechnique and kill as many women as possible.
He started by modifying his gun, a Ruger Mini-14.  He wanted it to be fully-automatic but such a task is not for the average person; it is difficult and requires an advanced understanding of firearms.  He ended up breaking his gun so instead of being semi-automatic it became a bolt action; that is, every time he fired, he needed to manually cycle the action before he could fire again.  The whole argument that semi-autos are too dangerous is invalidated by the fact that the worst school shooting in Canadian history was done with a mechanically simple bolt action.

Lepine went in to the school and started shooting with his broken Mini-14, killing many.

Dec 6 is traditionally Quebec grave dancing day.  During grave dancing day, men and firearms owners get blamed for Gharbi's actions.  The coalition for gun control fear mongers and uses the tragedy to push its political objectives.

We insult the memory of the victims when we ignore one basic fact - they wanted someone with a gun to come and stop the killer.

But herein was the main problem; there was a lot of police armed outside the school, they formed a perimeter.  I remind everyone that the police are not obligated to protect you, only to catch those who break the law, after the fact.  They knew there was a dangerous shooter and opted to do the best thing to preserve themselves…. I don’t blame them.

If only one of those women were armed, Gharbi would of not killed as many.  A disarmed society creates a plethora of victims.  Tell me; how many mass shootings take place at a police station?  Where people can shoot back?  If the Supreme Court as well as the actions of the police, prove that the police do not, and will not protect you, who is left to take care of you?  Only you.

We ignore a basic principle of criminology when we allow people to espouse this silly utopian idea that guns are bad and getting rid of them will magically stop problems of violence.  Was violence invented at the same time as gunpowder or was it invented the first time a man picked up a rock with hate in his heart?

Did the Ruger Mini-14 make Gharbi a bad man or was an absent, angry father, culture and a life of failure to blame?