n a month after a gunman killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech, an American university, before taking his own life.
In September last , a gunman at Montreals Dawson College killed a student and wounded 19 others before he died from police gunfire.
Toronto Mayor David Miller said the incident highlights the need to crack down on gun crimes in the city.
Handguns have one purpose, and that is to kill, and it really reinforces what we've been saying for quite a while at the city, Miller told TV station CP24. We absolutely have to get the guns off the streets. It's going to require some changes to our laws, but it has to be done.
One of the victim's neighbours, who would only identify himself as Godfried, said in an interview that he was "shocked" to hear Jordan Manners had been shot.
"I spoke to him this morning and told him to keep up his grades," said the man, a former teacher. "He was an amazing handyman. He could tear apart and put together a bike in minutes."
The neighbour said Jordan was a gentle person and it was a "shame" that someone that he knew as so kind would meet such a tragic end. "The guy was so calm. That's what I don't understand about it."
Experts noted, "The school shooters tend to be white kids in small towns in rural areas who identify with other white kids in small towns in rural areas and they sort of see their own experience and concerns and grievances in the actions of others. They see others who go on rampages in other schools as heroes. They're heroes because they got even with all the students and teachers and not only that, they're famous for it."
The latest shooting will undermine the sense of security of adolescents and schoolchildren they warned.
Dr. Marleen Wong, director of crisis counselling and intervention services for the Los Angeles Unified School District felt that the challenge for counsellors and parents will be to i
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