“My involvement in gun control stems from the tragedy—it’s a normal reaction—but I came to absolutely believe in it,” said Rathjen, who now has a daughter. [8], Lépine then walked up an escalator to the third floor where he shot and wounded one female and two male students in the corridor. For a long time, I hid the fact that I was Marc’s mother — people recognize my name, but a lot of women are called Monique Lépine in Quebec. I was a young psychologist at the time, just 32, and there was so much to deal with. He said to the three people at the front to go with us and he said that it was real, it was not a joke. Were you thinking about yourself? © 2019 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc. Jacques Prévert, which Lawrence Ferlinghetti translated into English: Why amplifying women’s voices in the wake of gender-based violence matters. Some students and staff never stepped foot in the Polytechnique again. Yeah, that's it. I kept waiting for Anne-Marie to phone and tell us she was okay. So, I stayed there only. He shot girls. His father, a mutual funds salesman, did not consider women to be the equal of men. Before the shooting she had felt that she was equal to men. But after having survived so much, I was also ecstatic about being alive. [46][47] A different theory was that Lépine's childhood experiences of abuse led him to feel victimized as he faced losses and rejections in his later life. 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He stood there, in his threadbare parka, holding a 223-calibre Sturm-Ruger rifle. [17] He began a pre-university CEGEP (college) program in Pure and Applied Sciences in 1982 but switched to a three-year vocational program in electronics technology after his first year. [76], The Canadian women's movement sees the massacre as a symbol of violence against women. Leclair was found dead near the man who killed her. “Remembering what happened makes us more vigilant.”, READ MORE: Lépine responded, "You're women, you're going to be engineers. We all go on the floor and we go under the desks. 14 women were murdered and 10 women and four men were injured. The 22-year-old from Boucherville had wanted to go into health care but ultimately chose to study mechanical engineering, in large part because of a close friend.

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