Police Seeking Motive In Montreal College Shooting

Dawson College will examine ways to beef up its security, said its director general Richard Filion. The school may reopen as early as Monday.

"We'll make a thorough assessment to make sure this will not happen again," Filion said. "I don't want to have to lock our doors or make Dawsonlike a fortress. We are about education. First we have to understand why this is happening in society."

Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the massacre "a cowardly and senseless act of violence." Montreal Mayor Gérard Tremblay said it was "a tragic incident, but an isolated incident."

"It's too much," said Dawson student Galadrielle Major, 23. "If this happens in Canada, we have a serious problem. Mr. Harper has to do something. It's not normal for a person who's that young to have access to guns. It's not normal."

The questions of access to automatic weapons and tighter gun control were raised in 1989. Those questions will most definitely be raised again.