Montreal Massacre

A man holds students hostage during their class at l'École Polytechnique in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989. He separates the men from the women and tells the men to leave the classroom, threatening them with his .22-calibre rifle. The enraged man begins a shooting rampage that spreads to three floors and several classrooms, jumping from desk to desk while female students cower below. He roams the corridors yelling, "I want women." Before opening fire in the engineering class, he calls the women "une gang de féministes" and says "J'haïs les féministes I hate feminists." One person pleads that they are not feminists, just students taking engineering. But the gunman doesn't listen. He shoots the women and then kills himself. Parents of the Polytechnique students wait outside the school crying and wonder if their daughters are among the 14 dead.

I was surprised to discover that somebody would actualy do that, especially at a public place such as a school. No wonder it's called a massacre. It's just a horrid thing to think about, let alone have happen to you or anyone else. The thought of it makes me speechless. I feel really sorry for the friends and familys of the people that were killed on that day. So the only question I have is really just why?

The effects of this silences women across the world because one single person performed such an act of violence against women.