1,300 attend Manners funeral

The death of a "promising young man" became a rallying point for a
neighbourhood overrun with gun violence yesterday, as more than
1,300 people gathered to pay respects to Jordan Manners, shot dead
in his high school little more than a week ago.
"If you met Jordan for two minutes, your face was full of smiles, two
minutes at the maximum," said Greg Stokes, Jordan's uncle, at the
Christian Centre Church, near the corner of Jane Street and Finch
Avenue. "He was a prince. And he could have been a king of change."
While grieving over the open casket of 15-year-old Jordan, his
mother, Laureen Small, fell backwards, fainting into the arms of
supporters who helped her to her chair. Ms. Small fought back
tears through the two and a half hour service as a pageant of
friends, family and former teachers took the stage to remember
the boy who they called a leader, an artist and a lover of the
outdoors.

It seems violence in school has become the norm all over.
How someone could feel that shooting someone would make
them a big person or ever fix whatever quarrel they may have
leaves me puzzeled. Why? is the question on everone lips and
I would like to ask the two boys now (especially the shooter).
WAS IT WORTH IT?