Sensationalism, obfuscation, exaggeration, and divisiveness, (the "us vs. them" mentality) are the jackhammers in the activists' toolbox. For years womens' groups have portrayed themselves as vicitms of the system run by men, and for quite a time they in fact were, to a point. But as the equality of opportunity gap closed these groups found themselves becoming more and more irrelevent and began a "war without end" setting the "equality" bar ever higher. LEAF, (the Womens' Legal and Education Fund) is most active in the fight to expand the discrimination against men to turn equal opportunity into equal result. In other words, moving their starting line closer to the finish line, (I would love to have that advantage, I'd enter the Olympics). Offering university spots or employment based on race or gender is as much discrimination as denying the same based on likewise traits. Discrimination sucks, government sanctioned and approved discrimination sucks to the 10th power. But this is what is required to achieve an unattainable goal, which ensures the funding tap remains on indefinately.
I don't intend to blame the victims, I put the blame squarely on the system and groups that turned them into victims. In 1967, the federal Liberal government amended the Criminal Code to deprive the Local Registrars of Firearms the capacity to issue Conceal Carry Permits, after which only the wealthy or politicians were issued permits. The attempted effemination of our boys started years ago in our educational institutions, and continues in the workplace. It doesn't work, at least not in society's interest. Official discrimination favoured women over men for enrollment in engineering classes. And to cloud the issue, Marc Lepine is never refered to by his name, Gamil Gharbi. Whether he was a practicing Muslim, we'll never know, not officially anyway, or whether his belief was that it is an offense for women to achieve higher learning, or why he was denied enrollment. Whatever, the fuse was lit.
In any case, all the men left the classrooms when ordered to do so, because they were indoctinated as sheep starting at a young age, this is a proud Canadian tradition. (Jacob Ryker was shot several times, but still he and 7 other schoolmates disarmed and subdued an attacker at the Thurston High School in Oregon, he survived and was awarded the highest honour in the Boy Scouts of America for leadership and bravery.) No one was able to be legally armed as per the law of 1967, except of course the police, who were not required, nor even allowed to intentionally put themselves in harm's way.
I find it unsettling that someone would poke the tiger in the eye and call themselves a victim after being mauled, but it is beyond disgusting that the same person would poke the tiger in the eye from a safe distance and let others be victims, and still call themselves a vicitm.