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Our National Monument to Women’s Victimhood

Published December 6, 2010 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: Canadian Mass Murders, Common Sense, Gun-Free Zones


This is part of my ongoing series on Canadian Mass Murders.


I was going to write something about Gamil Gharbi’s insane killing spree that left fourteen promising young women dead in Montreal back in 1989. But after reading my article from 2008, I really didn’t see what I would say today that I could say any better than I wrote then.

Maybe next year I’ll find a new angle…  So until then, for those who haven’t read it before, here is Montreal Massacre: Alternate Endings, originally posted on diarmani.com.

Gamil Gharbi single-handledly changed the face of Canadian gun politics. He became the embodiment of everything that man-hating feminists despise. In their horror and fear they lashed out at every Canadian male, and continue to do so today.

Someone said at the time, “The blood of these fourteen women are on the hands of every man”. Complete and utter garbage, but the national media lapped it up.

But what was the real problem in Montreal that fateful December day? Was it a lack of “gun control”? Not according to the Montreal Coroner Teresa Z. Sourour. She said quite clearly the exact opposite, not that anyone in government or the media noticed.

“The issue of firearms control has intentionally not been addressed. With the unlimited ammunition and time that Marc Lépine (Gamil Gharbi) had available to him, he would probably have been able to achieve similar results even with a conventional hunting weapon, which itself is readily accessible.”

Indeed it wasn’t until 2004, a full fifteen years after the event, that we were finally able to get the government to translate her report into English. (Montreal_Dec_6_1989_Coroners_Report.pdf)

Was it the failure of mental health officials? I doubt it. We did not have “thought police” in 1989 (and thankfully do not today either), and until this event, Mr. Gharbi apparently didn’t exhibit much in the way of abnormal psychology.

Was it the failure of police responding to the scene? Ms. Sourour said yes.

I disagree. Sure, they formed a perimeter and sat outside waiting until Gharbi offed himself, but that is not the root cause of the high death toll.

The failure that day was with our manhood. Or more to the point, our lack of one. For thirty years or more, men had been “trained” to be obedient, to do what they’re told, to be more “feminine”, less “manly”.

So they did exactly what the lunatic with the gun said. They abandoned their sisters to a sure and horrific death.

They left the room.

I pray that the faces of those fourteen dead women haunt every single male who did as Gharbi ordered, every single night for the remainder of their spineless lives. They were there when it counted. They could have saved the lives of their fellow students and they chose not to. Shame on them all. They failed the woman, they failed themselves, and they failed Canada.

Let’s imagine, for a moment, two alternative endings to Montreal on December 6, 1989.

Let’s imagine that a single one of those men had the courage to say “No!”

Imagine if he had gathered his thoughts and his courage, and simply stormed Gharbi. Sure, he might have been shot, even killed. But his actions would have showed clear leadership, and surely one or two other men would have joined the battle. Gharbi would have been taken down in the very first classroom, with perhaps three or four wounded or dead.

That’s a far cry from 14 dead & 29 wounded.

But wait! you say, That’s never going to happen! Who in their right mind is going to confront an armed madman in a school shooting?

Nobody!

Are you sure?

Because there are 7 young men at the Thurston High School in Oregon who are living proof you are wrong.

Yes, the young man leading the counter-attack, Jacob Ryker, was shot multiple times. He didn’t let that stop him. He continued on until the man with the gun was disarmed, and he lived to tell about it. Not only that, he was awarded the highest honour in the Boy Scouts of America for his bravery and leadership. (http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/23/us/shootings-in-a-schoolhouse-the-hero-wounded-teen-ager-is-called-a-hero.html)

Now let’s look at another scenario, one that seems to disturb so many Canadians today.

Imagine our laws were different.

Imagine that, instead of doing their best to disarm every Canadian, our government believed in our inherent right to defend ourselves. Imagine they had the common sense and the decency to promote lawful concealed carry for any law-abiding citizen that can meet the same proficiency with firearms and use of force training as our police officers.

It’s not that difficult a threshold.

Had there been a single law-abiding citizen with a concealed handgun in Montreal’s l’Ecole Polytechnique that fateful day in 1989, the outcome would have been different. It would have been swift and effective.

Gharbi pulls his rifle out of his duffel bag and points it at someone. He might even get a shot or two off. Then some man or woman with the foresight (and the training) to carry would have stopped him dead.

We wouldn’t be holding candle-light vigils for fourteen dead women, believing that if we just blame enough men for the tragedy, it won’t happen again. The cold, brutal reality is so completely the opposite.

Look at every school shooting in North America and what do they all have in common? “Gun-Free Zones”. Every school has, as its published policy, no legal firearms permitted.

It didn’t help in Columbine. It didn’t help in Tabor. It didn’t help in Virginia Tech. It didn’t help in Dawson College. And it didn’t help in l’Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. Nor will it help the next time some unbalanced individual with a gun goes on a shooting rampage in the next “gun-free zone”.

The time has come to stop pretending we can light a candle to stop the violence. The time has come to focus on solutions that work.

Guaranteeing the death of our young people is not something we should be proud of, yet that is what we do every time we legislate another “gun-free zone”.

The only people who obey the rules are the law-abiding. People like you and me.

We do not walk into a school or a mall and start shooting people.

Yet we are the very people the state demands be defenseless in the face of evil.

It’s time that changed. It’s time our politicians paid attention to us and the real solution we offer.

It’s time concealed carry was made accessible again.

Yes, I said again.

It wasn’t so long ago that concealed carry was a realistic option in Canada, and obtaining a concealed carry permit wasn’t a big deal.

It’s already legal. The law is on the books. Our bureaucrats simply deny every application that doesn’t meet their “criteria”. (read every application)

Let’s tell our elected politicians we want them to take control of the unelected bureaucracy and make concealed carry accessible to ordinary Canadian Citizens.

Again.

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Comments

  1. Matthew says

    August 16, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    I am worried that when men did try to save those women, feminists would accuse us of “seeing women as the more vulnerable sex”.

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  2. Christopher di Armani says

    August 16, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    Matthew, you’re probably right about that.

    That being said, I’m willing to let the feminists call men any names they want if we’re actually *acting* like men and defending our fellow human being, female or otherwise, feminist or otherwise, from whatever evil is at hand.

    Thanks for the comment, and the laugh!

    Christopher

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  3. Kelly says

    December 6, 2011 at 1:23 pm

    LGR is a failed attempt. Since she (Wendy) is for regulations maybe we should have a Mulsim registry, men registry, Mentally Ill registry.. Oh wait its a breach of rights if we do that. So why is it ok to discriminate against 2,000,000 people ? Why is it ok to track 2000 000 people and to insinuate that they are criminals in the making? This infuriates me beyond belief the commies AKA NDP and Liberals have f*cked this country 7 ways from sunday, its a breath of fresh air when we have a party that does what it promised too during the election.

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    • C. Dill says

      December 9, 2020 at 12:29 am

      Further to comment above about registries of dangerous individuals.

      Successive Liberal governments since the days of Pierre Trudeau have always focused attention on controlling and monitoring legal gun owners.

      Part of the reason for this is obvious. Attempting to control and monitor those who do not give a hoot about any laws in the first place becomes very difficult when you are searching for easy ways to tell the naïve public you are “doing something” about violence.

      It becomes even more hypocritical when you consider the fact that all those violent convicted criminals under court ordered prohibitions against possessing firearms are not tracked whatsoever. This just boggles my mind, especially considering the fact that during my career as an auditor I relied on proposing concrete recommendations in reports which directly addressed issues revealed during an audit. I guess the minds of Liberals work in some other dimension. After all, Justin did say something about altering time and space.

      If memory serves me correctly, I believe it was revealed through ATIP that there have been upward of 500k individuals at any given time under such firearm prohibition orders in Canada. Although it would make sense to me to focus tracking and control efforts of law enforcement on these known violent individuals, when questioned many times on this Liberals have cited personal freedoms under the Charter as the reason for not pursuing this action. Apparently the same does not apply to legal gun owners. It will take some legal mind to explain that to this mere simple minded accountant.

      For the past 50 odd years, since Pierre Trudeau came on the political scene as PM back in ’68, there has been a gradual trend toward leftist ideology which is now demonstrating in full blown fashion how dangerous this is to a society. The warped thinking of this new age societal norm is something that belongs in an Orwellian nightmare scenario, but instead it has become the storyline of our modern day Canada!

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