A Brief Note On The Ottawa Polytechnique Massacre

The École Polytechnique massacre, also known as the Montreal massacre, was a mass shooting at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that occurred on December 6, 1989. The shooter’s name was Marc Lepine, during the shooting he only targeted women but also hurt several men in the crossfire. He shot 28 people and killed 14 women. During that time, there needed to be a more in depth look at how Marc was treated as a child, gun safety needed to be checked out, how women were generally treated during the time, and how keep a safe classroom.
Marc Lepine’s mental health had a huge factor on his outburst and planning of the massacre and the blatant targeting of women, mostly due to his abusive and neglectful family. For obvious reasons,

His sister, Nadia, had a personality that was almost completely opposite from him. She was outspoken and constantly made fun of him, which only contributed to a strained family relationship and this notion of his mental health being toyed with. He rarely was social with other students at school but had one friend named Jean Belanger that he hung out with frequently for a period of time during their childhood. They did everything together, but gradually lost touch once Marc’s family moved away. It marked the beginning of a period where he described his life as unhappy, making it even harder to hold on to what Marc had lost so much of, creating this lack of emotion and the ability to understand what it is to feel. Marc had lost so much and had so much pain in his life, that he became numb to it and created an artificial sociopathic personality. For those that knew Marc, the massacre was really unexpected. He had often been described as introverted by his peers and teachers, leaving behind an almost non-existent impression. What most people didn’t know at that time is that Marc Lepine had every trait in the average shooter today, lack of

Child support payments stopped soon after separation and the father disappeared from their lives. Monique took classes in addition to her job in order to advance her career, eventually making it as a director of nursing at St. Jude de Laval. However, her ambitions limited her time with the kids even more. Now we reach the point in Marc Lepine’s life where the most important part of his life leading up to the Montreal Massacre. The most important point to look at here is why Marc killed so many innocent women. The best form of evidence to look at is to go back to the times where he was being beaten constantly. Firstly, he saw his father as the devil, after these intense beatings, his father told his mother not to comfort him after them, and his mother was always away because of work. During this brutal time in Marc Lepine’s life, he needed comfort from these beatings desperately, but his mother was not there to deliver this. Marc Lepine was now creating another feeling inside himself, one that hated women because of the abilities that they lacked in his life. To Marc Lepine, women were useless, but as we know in present time, this is not true. All because his mother couldn’t deliver this basic motherly need. Marc Lepine’s mother