This book describes their fight to raise public awareness, gain public support, and then force not just one, but two gun-control bills through Parliament, against the workings of the million-dollar gun lobby. In the hours and days that followed, as a member of the former student council, she played a leading role in dealing with the media, helping with the funerals, and in organizing the m
- Title : December 6th: From the Montreal Massacre to Gun Control
- Author : Heidi Rathjen
- Rating : 4.68 (860 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-9-1
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 224 Pages
- Asin : 0771061250
- Language : English
This book describes their fight to raise public awareness, gain public support, and then force not just one, but two gun-control bills through Parliament, against the workings of the million-dollar gun lobby. In the hours and days that followed, as a member of the former student council, she played a leading role in dealing with the media, helping with the funerals, and in organizing the memorial event. She did not know then that her life had been changed.Rather than continuing to grieve, she decided to do something to help prevent similar tragedies in the future. It was an extraordinary campaign, and a political eye-opener for a young woman. He killed fourteen women and wounded thirteen more.The slaughter, motivated by his rage against feminists, shocked the world.Heidi Rathjen was a studenIt is divided into sections by time periods beginning in the 1840s and continues to the present. The pictures are interesting, but I could do without the overused caption "And the big guns rode the rails" or "The big guns move by rail," which became irritating. For instance, the way in which the technocracy and meritocracy of the 1950s and 60s is backed up by an ideology of autonomisation. It's like going on an adventure and a journey of a lifetime. If you want to find the most complete listing of famous and not so famous (or important for that matter) modified Frogeye Sprites, this is the book. Although Kennedy believed this, he was never able to get the population to embrace the action. Unfortunately, I found that this was not the case as soon as I began reading.In Mr. I look forward to another similar volume of photographs and pictures like this one.. Not because of its simplicity, but because of its clarity. While it is meant primarily for those who are going to run a therapy group, there are iIt was an extraordinary campaign, and a political eye-opener for a young woman.. In the hours and days that followed, as a member of the former student council, she played a leading role in dealing with the media, helping with the funerals, and in organizing the memorial event. With the help of Wendy Cukier she organized the national Coalition for Gun Control. On December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine walked into the École Polytechnique at the Université de Montral, ordered the men out, and then started shooting at the remaining women with a semi-automatic rifle. This book describes their fight to raise public awareness, gain public support, and then force not just one, but two gun-control bills through Parliament, against the workings of the million-dollar gun lobby. He killed fourteen women and wounded thirteen more.The slaughter, motivated by his rage against feminists, shocked the world.Heidi Rathjen was a student in the building at the time, and for forty-five long minutes she listened to the shots as the killer roamed the building. She did not know then that her life had been changed.Rather than continuing to grieve, she decided to do something to help prevent similar tragedies in the futureShe is now the strategist for an anti-tobacco coalition.Charles Montpetit is a Montreal writer and winner of the 1989 Governor General’s Award for his children’s book Temps Mort.
. Heidi Rathjen has become one of the most remarkable and prominent young women in Canada, receiving honorary doctorates from Laval and Concordia Universities. As a volunteer, Heidi Rathjen continues to head up the Coalition for Gun Control
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