The face of dumbfuck

Kimveer Gill

In case you hadn't already seen the pic, this is the guy that shot some twenty people at Dawson College on Wednesday.

I'm not going to go on about how shooting people is wrong, because you either already know that or you're not bright enough to read. I'm not going to go on about how immigrants come to Canada and don't respect our laws, because that's a pointless argument. Mostly because even though his name is foreign (Punjabi name), it doesn't mean his family hasn't been here for generations.

I won't go on about him having a mohawk. No word yet if he wore copious amounts of gold and drove a black van with a red stripe.

I'm not going to compare him to Marc Lepine, since at this point the only thing they have in common is shooting, Montreal, and a school.

Lord knows I'm not going to mention Columbine. School + shooting does not automatically equal Columbine.

I'm not going to go on about the only video clip I could find online about the news last night (streamed from a late-night worker's machine while I was at work) was on CNN, even though it clearly said Global up on the top right. Global didn't have the clip, nor did CBC or anybody else.

I also won't bandy about how in the clip (there were a couple of them, actually) the reporters would stick their microphone into someone's face and ask "How did it make you feel when you saw people being shot?" or "Were you scared when the shooter pointed his gun at you?". Why even ask that? What are people supposed to say, "Naw man. When I finish school I'm hoping to get work as a pencil, so I was just thinking 'Hey, free lead!'" Idiots.

No need for me to go on about how the guy lived with his parents and yet still had a few guns.

Ditto with him posting on http://www.vampirefreaks.com/ using the handle `Trench'. Nor the tossup from that site over which will be the most overused soundbite in the days to come - that he wrote "You will come to know him as the Angel of Death" or "Work sucks ... School sucks ... Life sucks ... What else can I say? Metal and Goth kick ass. Life is like a video game, you gotta die sometime."

Also, Goth doesn't equal "dangerous weirdo".

No, out of all this, specifically the video clips (of which there are now more, including one taken on a cell phone from inside as the police advance) what seems to be sticking out is that everybody is mentioning the trenchcoat the guy is wearing.

I've heard it (once) compared that the assailants at Columbine wore trenchcoats. I've heard insinuations that it's somehow part of the madness that the guy was wearing one. Here's a theory for you:

THE GUY WAS CARRYING THREE GUNS - WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO WEAR? SPANDEX?!

One watt fuckwits.Sorry, but the reporters and commentators seem to have got on my pecs. And it's not like you expected to get insightful opinions on my blog, did you?

One final thought: Kimveer shot twenty people, and one of them died. Not to make light of Anastasia De Sousa's death, but that's a pathetic ratio. And I'm glad it was so pathetic, don't get me wrong.

But he could have got the same result if, instead of choosing death by cop, he'd just gone out into the woods and shot himself.