Cynics Unlimited

By now you are probably at least somewhat familiar with the Columbine-style shootings at Dawson College in Montreal. I’ve got a couple posts coming up related to this but first let’s lay down the groundwork -

The Associated Press has the general story:

A 25-year-old man who mounted a deadly shooting rampage at a downtown Montreal college had posted pictures of himself on the Internet with a rifle and said he was feeling “crazy” and “postal” and was drinking whiskey hours before the attack.

The man, identified by police as Kimveer Gill, also said on a blog that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado and wanted to die “in a hail of gunfire.”

In the end, Gill - dressed in a black trench coat like the Columbine shooters - put his own gun to his head and pulled the trigger during a shootout with officers at Dawson College on Wednesday, police said.

The Globe and Mail gets in depth about Gill’s background, including his links to the already-infamous VampireFreaks.com

Mr. Gill’s Web page, which was taken down by early Thursday morning, included a photo of a tombstone with his first name printed on it with an epitaph that read: “Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse.”

The last entry on his blog was posted a 10:41 a.m. Wednesday, just hours before the rampage at Dawson College.

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The site also contained 55 pictures of Mr. Gill, several of them with him holding knives and guns, wearing a black trench coat and combat boots, which witnesses said he was wearing at the time of the attacks.

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The blog was posted on the now infamous VampireFreaks.com, which has figured prominently in at least two high-profile killings in Canada in the past few years.

A 12-year-old and her 23-year-old boyfriend met on the site before being charged with murder in the deaths of an Alberta family in April.

In February, 2005, a judge declared a mistrial in the Johnathan murder trial, in which a three young men were charged in the slaying of the 12-year-old boy, after it was discovered that a key 15-year old witness may have perjured herself after her blog on VampireFreaks.com contradicted some of her testimony.

A torrent of users at Vampire Freaks let it known they’re not terribly supportive of Mr. Gill’s last opus:

“There is no glory in what he did. It was a pathetic act and hopefully his death was miserable.
Good riddance”

“I went to Dawson College for 2 years and never imagined such violence would take place at the hands of genetic debris such as yourself. I am not a religious person but if there is a hell I hope you are burning there as I type. You killed an innocent 18 year old girl today. Why would you do something like that??? Conformity and lies anger you? BFD!!! It angers a lot of people as does lying, backstabbing and all the other things you complained about on here. All I feel is sympathy for Anastasia De Sousa and her family. I of course feel sadness for those who you injured as badly as you did.”

“TOO BAD YOUR PARENTS FAILED YOU THEY OBVIOUSLY SPOILED AND RUINED YOU.

I’M GUESSING THEY SPARED THE ROD BIG TIME, YOU SOUND LIKE A TOTALLY SPOILED BRAT.
WHILE YOU ARE SMELLING THE BRIMSTONE, AND YOU WANT SYMPATHY FOR THE WORLD NOT DOING ENOUGH FOR YOUR SPOILED ASS NOTHING ANYONE DID TO YOU COMPARED TO WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. AND YOU WERE DELIBERATE VS ALL THE IMAGNED THINGS THAT HURT YOUR OVER SENSITIVE FEELINGS. LIKE DID ANYONE SHOOT YOU BEFORE YOU SHOT OTHERS? LIKE THOSE YOU KILLED AND MAIMED? IF YOU ARE WILLING TO DO WORSE TO OTHERS YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY.

COURSE YOU ARE TOO SELFISH TO SEE IT.”