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The injured and witnesses among university staff and students suffered a variety of physical, social, existential, financial, and psychological consequences, including post-traumatic stress disorder. A number of students committed suicide.[50] In the suicide letters of at least two of them, the anguish they suffered following the massacre was cited as the reason for killing themselves.[50] Nine years after the event, survivors reported still being affected by their experiences, though with time some of the effects had lessened.[50]
[edit] Police response
Police response to the shootings was heavily criticized for the amount of time it gave Lépine to carry out the massacre. The first police officers to arrive at the scene established a perimeter around the building and waited before entering the building. During this period, several women were killed.[1][51] Subsequent changes to emergency response protocols led to praise of emergency responders' handling of the Dawson College shooting in 2006 in which one woman was killed by a shooter. In that incident, coordination amongst emergency response agencies and prompt intervention was credited with minimizing the loss of life.[13]
[edit] Gun control
Further information: Gun politics in Canada
The massacre was a major spur for the Canadian gun control movement. One of the survivors, Heidi Rathjen, who was in one of the classrooms Lépine did not enter during the shooting, organized the Coalition for Gun Control with Wendy Cukier.[12] Suzanne Laplante-Edward and Jim Edward, the parents of one of the victims, were also deeply involved.[52] Their activities, along with others, led to the passage of Bill C-68, or the Firearms Act, in 1995, ushering in stricter gun control regulations.[12] These new regulations included requirements on the training of gun owners, screening of firearm applicants, rules concerning gun and ammunition storage and the registration of all firearms. The gun registry in particular has been a controversial and partisan issue, with critics charging that it was a political move by the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien that has been expensive and impractical to enforce.[53] During 2009 and 2010 survivors of the massacre and their families publicly opposed a bill, supported by Stephen Harper's Conservative government, aimed at ending the long-gun registry;[54][55][56] Rathjen described it as "a slap in the face for the victims and families".[57] The bill was narrowly defeated in September 2010.[58]photovoltaic solar systems
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