May 25, 2007
Not Only in the USA
Hundreds of students take refuge in Toronto high school after boy, 15, shot dead
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/070523/n0523150A.html
After reading the newswire above about Toronto's school shooting I made a search for other school shootings that have taken place outside the USA and I found that almost every incident (except one in the UK, one in Germany and another in Australia) took place in countries where weapon control is somewhat light.
Here's the list (observe that I deleted the dozens of shootings in the USA):
* Avivim school bus massacre - Avivim, Israel; May 8, 1970
* Ma'alot massacre - Ma'alot, Israel; May 15, 1974
* École Polytechnique Massacre - Montreal, Quebec, Canada; December 6, 1989
* Concordia University massacre -Montreal, Quebec, Canada; August 24, 1992
* Dunblane massacre - Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom; March 13, 1996
* Sanaa massacre - Sanaa, Yemen; March 30, 1997
* W. R. Myers High School shooting - Taber, Alberta, Canada; April 28, 1999
* Erfurt massacre - Erfurt, Germany; April 26, 2002
* Monash University shooting - Melbourne, Australia; October 21, 2002
* Dawson College shooting - Montreal, Quebec, Canada; September 13, 2006
* C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute shooting - Toronto, Ontario, Canada; May 23, 2007
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_massacres
Regards.
~ Priapo
priapoATgmail.com AT http://pgp.mit.edu
Above photo features the Trenchcoat Mafia, Manson's fan club at Columbine High School in 1999. The assassins, Klebold in black ball cap with white lettering on left and next to him Eric Harris wearing dark glasses mock "shooting" people!
[photo via google not from above links]
Posted by Stubbornson at May 25, 2007 06:32 PM