[Crazy Canuck]

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and especially this model: http://www.cx4storm.com/

for those that wounder why:
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/features...ting/index.html

my wife works 1 street corner away, and sometimes goes for lunch there... that day, she didn't... Thank God !

[jensend]

While I don't own any guns, I have to say that the core issue in things such as this have little or nothing to do with guns. People in many societies seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to cope with the challenges, stresses, and disappointments that are a large part of the fabric of modern life. Just consider the number and widespread use of prescription drugs that are meant to address getting through daily life. As recently as 20 years ago, the notion that vast numbers of people would need sleep aids, anti-depressants, digestive aids, etc. would have been thought absurd. Today, drug companies are producing products that seem to treat people's inabilties to cope from childhood to the grave. I'm not criticising the people who need the help, or those who provide it, but it seems to me that this is a telling commentary on the extent to which people have been pushed to, and beyond their limits by daily living and its pressures. Someone once said, "Beyond one's limits is a place no one ever wants to be."

Considering the countless number of overstyressed individuals we see all around us every day, it is, sadly, less than surprising that some individuals lose the ability to function rationally and responsibly. For these people, escape, or release, or random revenge is all that consumes them. The method they choose is just the means not the cause of their actions. Some use guns, some knives, others run down random pedestrians or drown their children. My point is, that we need to address the underlying and universal pressures in our approaches to living that put so many in such extremes. Considering the number of overstressed, jobless, homeless, individuals, we are fortunate that such horrors aren't more commonplace.

Lastly, I am happy to hear that Eugenio's wife is safe.