School shooting rampages are sometimes thought to be a new phenomenon, I think the "I don't like Mondays" was the first of them, and of course Marc Lepine and Columbine, and then a few others. But the one perpetuated by Michael Slobodian, 16, (2 killed, 13 injured, suicide) in May 1975 in Brampton Ontario is considered the second case of a student shooting up a school because of his emotional issues. (Here's your chance to give your usual speech about how crime exploded in the 70s cuz of drugs that people didn't know how to cope with--Chimples).It might be noted that the Slobodians had moved to Ontario from Montreal about a dozen years earlier. In fact there were a good 10 people with that family name in Montreal in 1963 according to Lovells. (Sorry, clever Banq brass makes no linking possible).
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| Strippers Mariette Allen and Gilles Frenette also ran an agency at that time |
Competitor The Honest John Agency was also shaken down by the Dubois clan.
The Dubois boys shot the place up and narrowly missed secretary Denise Adam who recounted her long association with the Dubois.
She once got a big 50 cent tip for a coffee from them when she was working in a restaurant in St. Henri in the 60s. And then soon after, Normand Dubois and six others broke down the door of a place she was staying. And then she got a job at the Calce agency and Claude Dubois was the PR guy for the place and when she switched to the competitor, he verbally assaulted her and apparently got a gun at her.
The point being that those Dubois were everywhere back then and scaring a lot of people.
The point being that those Dubois were everywhere back then and scaring a lot of people.
How did the Dubois reign phased out?
ReplyDeleteI remember going to college with one of the victims of the Brampton shootings not sure where he got hit but he got around walking/limping & with a cane for support......
ReplyDeleteThe proliferation of such shooting rampages can be traced back to our permissive society where formerly basic values have unfortunately gone by the wayside.
ReplyDeleteThe "Me Generation" began after World War 2 when more mothers began to work, at first leaving their children in nurseries and later making them into "latch-key kids" who, thus unsupervised, found plenty of time to get into mischief, vandalizing with graffiti, carrying knives, forming street gangs, and so on. Inevitably, it has only gotten worse over the succeeding decades.
In their eyes, the value of other people's lives and property decreased and any normal feelings of guilt and remorse were discarded.
In Australia, for example, there are now "feral children" of preteen age rampaging in gangs, brazenly drinking and stealing in broad daylight, car-racing at night by the hundreds--seemingly with impunity from the police who apparently could care less or do little to put a stop to it.
See this: http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/video/
and scroll down to the video clip "Hoon hoods wreak havoc on servo-5:58"
It is only a small step from this type of outrageous and irresponsible behaviour to more serious crimes.
Shootings like Brampton are usually for that type of reason: the shooter/s want revenge against an individual or class that they see as having prevented them from achieving something they see as being rightfully theirs, or from their piece of the dream: women, the jocks, colleagues, the popular kids, in their case the teacher. Then they kill themselves...go out in a blaze of glory.
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