Now the Journal de Montréal is campaigning for more high security measures at the city's universities, as they clearly won't be satisfied until everyone has to present I.D. or get iris-scanned to enter any building at all. According to this philosophy, crowded public buildings as diverse as the Bell Centre, the Grande Bibliothèque, Notre-Dame during Christmas midnight mass, the Paramount cinema, any mall or plaza on Saturday in December, is merely a potential target for crazed killers. The fact that this hardly ever happens, that injuries and deaths from this kind of incident are negligible next to statistics for road accidents or smoking-related mortality, is not mentioned. Presumably we're all safest alone at home behind locked doors, is the subtext – but it'd be a hell of a life.
posted at 08:54