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Metroblogging Montreal and Boing Boing have compiled information about the shooter responsible for yesterday's horrific violence at a Montreal college—25-year-old Kimveer Gill—including links to his VampireFreaks.com web pages, which approximate the effect of 10,000 goths vomiting simultaneously on an NRA rally. It's almost too great a tragedy to make sense of. Luckily, however, we don't need to, as Sharon Stone was more than willing to offer the Canadian Press newswire her meandering, lunatic thoughts on the matter at a Toronto Film Festival press conference today:

"I would venture to guess that the person who did the shooting in Montreal is reacting much more to the fact that they're not loved, and that they're having (an) incredible chasm and hollow desperate feeling of a lack of love," the loquacious Stone said as she promoted her new film, "Bobby," at the Toronto International Film Festival. [...]

As her co-stars in the film about Robert F. Kennedy looked on - Demi Moore, Christian Slater and William H. Macy among them - Stone continued.

"And the violence in them comes from that incredible outcry of desperation more than the fact that they saw a violent film," said Stone [...]

"The violence that they feel may be reflecting back to them on film, but the violence is innately coming from a desperate feeling of a lack of love." [...]

"It's very important that we nurture our children and teach them compassionate behaviour and mindful and thoughtful behaviour," she said. "It's important as a society that we remain compassionate, mindful and thoughtful to one another."

What Stone's theories about the killer—whom, it turns out, appears to come from a stable single-parent, middle-class home—ultimately boil down to is that all the world's suffering and senseless violence stems from a basic lack of crazy-movie-star love. It's a touching sentiment—with echoes of her equally grounded-in-reality "I'll kiss anyone for peace" mission to the Middle East—though not even we ever thought Stone was so batshit off-her-rocker as to align her sympathies with a murderous maniac. The controversial statements could prove to have repercussions, particularly when her next arrival at The Ivy is greeted by the screams of patrons diving across its crowded patio in a panicked attempt at surviving the hail of bullets that might come flying out of her handbag at any given moment.