6 DÉCEMBRE 1989
Meanwhile in Canada reminds us:
29 years ago on December 6th, 14 lives were taken – because they were women.
We will remember.
🌹Geneviève Bergeron, civil engineering student
🌹Hélène Colgan, mechanical engineering student
🌹Nathalie Croteau, mechanical engineering student
🌹Barbara Daigneault, mechanical engineering student
🌹Anne-Marie Edward, chemical engineering student
🌹Maud Haviernick, materials engineering student
🌹Maryse Laganière, budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department
🌹Maryse Leclair, materials engineering student
🌹Anne-Marie Lemay, mechanical engineering student
🌹Sonia Pelletier, mechanical engineering student
🌹Michèle Richard, materials engineering student
🌹Annie St-Arneault, mechanical engineering student
🌹Annie Turcotte, materials engineering student
🌹Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, nursing student
I was unaware of this incident or at least completely forgot about it. After reading the wikipedia page I am not sure that survivors, particularly the male survivors, were cowards for not intervening.
It gives me great pain to know that my son, now in high school, has to endure lockdown drills mostly because of our inept gun laws in America. Nevertheless, we are told at the workplace and kids are told at the schools there are things to do. RUN, HIDE, FIGHT. Exactly in that order.
If a gun man allows someone to run, then they should run. That is one life saved. I would not call that person a coward. A coward is a member of the NRA whose inflexibility and insecurity does not allow them to do the right thing.
Kevin, I was surprised during our lockdown drill last week that our school is telling students to throw things at a gunman. It seems to me that is a very bad idea. They go by the fact that hiding under the desks didn’t work in Columbine, so the assumption is you should throw something…anything…at the shooter. My guess is, unless you are a star baseball player who could knock the gun out of his hand without difficulty, you will probably create more problems than you solve by doing that.
I would hope the instructions were run, hide, then if trapped, throw stuff.
I still see a generally persistent attitude among some testosterone driven ignoramuses who think their having a gun would stop all this nonsense. Even the dumbest psychopath who wants to take out his classmates would know who’s packing heat in the class and he would take them out first. Texas style retribution is delusional at best and deadly for all concerned otherwise.
Nope. Throw stuff. They actively discouraged run and hide. (But, this is an NRA-driven, pro-life, deep red area, and they probably think it would work like in a Clint Eastwood movie, or something. Maybe I should have my students talk to chairs.)