MONTREAL and OTTAWA, Sept. 14, 2006

Canada Questions Laws After Rampage

Should Already-Tough Gun Laws Be Tougher? Controls On Internet Needed?

    • A woman deposits flowers on a fence at the Dawson College campus, Sept. 14, 2006.

      A woman deposits flowers on a fence at the Dawson College campus, Sept. 14, 2006.  (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

    • Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters he's not sure whether Canada needs new laws to prevent a similar tragedy, Sept. 14, 2006.

      Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters he's not sure whether Canada needs new laws to prevent a similar tragedy, Sept. 14, 2006.  (AP Photo/CP, Fred Chartrand)

    • A picture from Kimveer Gill's blog.<br>

      A picture from Kimveer Gill's blog.
       (AP Photo/CP, Vampirefreaks.com)

    • A picture from Kimveer Gill's blog. <br>

      A picture from Kimveer Gill's blog.
       (vampirefreaks.com)

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Gill said on a blog that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado and wanted to die "in a hail of gunfire."

The Internet postings reveal an angry, solitary young man who lived with his mother, sported a mohawk, dressed in black and was filled with hatred for everyone from jocks to preppies and everything from country music to hip-hop. He once worked for a carpet company and more recently an auto parts business.

"Work sucks ... school sucks ... life sucks ... what else can I say? ... Life is a video game you've got to die sometime," he wrote in his profile for a Web site called vampirefreaks.com.

Blog entries on vampirefreaks.com in Gill's name show more than 50 photos depicting the young man in various poses holding a rifle or a knife and wearing a black trench coat and combat boots.

One photo has a tombstone bearing his name and the epitaph: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."

The last of six journal entries Wednesday was posted at 10:41 a.m, about two hours before Gill died at Dawson.

"His name is Trench. you will come to know him as the Angel of Death," Gill wrote at one point on his vampirefreaks.com profile. "He is not a people person. He has met a handful of people in his life who are decent. But he finds the vast majority to be worthless, no good, conniving, betraying, lying, deceptive."

This inscription is below a picture of Gill aiming a gun at the camera: "I think I have an obsession with guns ... muahahaha."

"Anger and hatred simmers within me," said another caption below a picture of Gill grimacing.

He wrote that he is 6-foot-1, was born in Montreal and is of Indian heritage. It was unclear whether he meant east Indian or American Indian, but Gill is a common name in India.

He said his weakness is laziness and that he fears nothing. Responding to the question, "How do you want to die?" Gill replied "like Romeo and Juliet — or in a hail of gunfire."

Gill repeatedly said on his blog entries that he loved black trench coats. He wore a black trench coat during the shooting and opened fire in the cafeteria just as Columbine students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris did in 1999.

He also maintained an online blog, similar to Klebold and Harris, devoted to Goth culture, heavy metal music such as Marilyn Manson, guns and journal entries expressing hatred against authority figures and "society."

He said he liked to play "Super Columbine Massacre," an Internet-based computer game that simulates the April 20, 1999, shootings at the Colorado high school when Klebold and Harris killed 13 people and then themselves.

Gill complained that a video shooting game, "Postal 2," was too childish. He wanted one that allowed him to kill more and go "beserk."

"I want them to make a game so realistic, that it looks and feels like it's actually happening," he wrote in his blog.

Danny Ledonne, the creator of "Super Columbine Massacre," posted a message of sympathy on his site.

"I am, like most, saddened by the news of the recent shooting at Dawson College. I extend my condolences to those affected by this painful event," Ledonne wrote.


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by LABOCAPO September 15, 2006 5:58 PM EDT
Do you think somebody can kill or hurt that many people with a stone, knife or bare fist ?

Maybe the problem is that any young or old *** has a M-16 at home.

What a bunch of clowns...
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