Tumbler Ridge
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Nine people were killed and at least 25 more were injured after a mass shooting in the community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., on Tuesday.
Officers believe they have identified the shooter, who was found dead in the school, but said they will "struggle" to ever determine a motive for what has become one of the deadliest shootings in Canadian history.
A Grade 12 student at the school said he and his classmates were locked down for more than two hours behind barricaded doors before police escorted them outside.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says all flags on federal government buildings across the country will be flown at half mast.
Provincial and world leaders, including King Charles, have expressed solidarity with Canadians and the B.C. community.
Nine people were killed and at least 25 more were injured after a mass shooting in the community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., on Tuesday.
Officers believe they have identified the shooter, who was found dead in the school, but said they will "struggle" to ever determine a motive for what has become one of the deadliest shootings in Canadian history.
A Grade 12 student at the school said he and his classmates were locked down for more than two hours behind barricaded doors before police escorted them outside.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says all flags on federal government buildings across the country will be flown at half mast.
Provincial and world leaders, including King Charles, have expressed solidarity with Canadians and the B.C. community.
RCMP have identified the suspect as Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, who was found dead of a 'self-inflicted injury.'
Talk radio in Toronto are saying the shooter was trans that had numerous encounters with police and mental health workers.
The people shot in the house was her mother and step brother.
What I can't stomach is the RCMP (no doubt hyper-sensitive to our woke government), tripping all over themselves to protect the 'pronoun integrity' of the mental case who murdered six children between the ages of 11 and 12, and two adults, both aged 39. We're going to see a lot more of these types of violent acts with our misguided gender affirming care. The fact of the matter is, the Gender Affirming Gang is lumping every type of mental illness, from Shizophrenia to depression, into the "You must be trans?" solution.
Many of these so-called gender-affirming experts are crackpots with zero medical training or qualifications.
There used to be a criterion for sex change reassignment; severe mental illness automatically disqualified you.
Now it's a fucking assembly line starting in Elementary School.
Many of these so-called gender-affirming experts are crackpots with zero medical training or qualifications.
There used to be a criterion for sex change reassignment; severe mental illness automatically disqualified you.
Now it's a fucking assembly line starting in Elementary School.
Have you seen this then? Canadian reporterpersons announced that policepersons have confirmed the identify of the gunperson in Tumbler Ridge.
Anchorpersons at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation confirmed that newspersons on the ground had confirmed the identity with multiple policepersons and firepersons present at the scene.
"CBC News can now confirm that local patrolpersons have a positive ID on the gunperson," said reporterperson Brad Stevenson. "The identification came through a city councilperson who passed a tip from a mailperson on to a policeperson. We now go live to our cameraperson who is on the scene."
At publishing time, the CBC anchorperson had turned things over to the station's weatherperson for what to expect this weekend.
Canadian Reporterperson Announces Policepersons Have Identified Gunperson
VANCOUVER — Canadian reporterpersons announced that policepersons have confirmed the identify of the gunperson in Tumbler Ridge.
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Ya, the stupidity is pretty obvious but then stupidity has spread making it the number 1 issue in the Western World.Have you seen this then? Canadian reporterpersons announced that policepersons have confirmed the identify of the gunperson in Tumbler Ridge.
Anchorpersons at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation confirmed that newspersons on the ground had confirmed the identity with multiple policepersons and firepersons present at the scene.
"CBC News can now confirm that local patrolpersons have a positive ID on the gunperson," said reporterperson Brad Stevenson. "The identification came through a city councilperson who passed a tip from a mailperson on to a policeperson. We now go live to our cameraperson who is on the scene."
At publishing time, the CBC anchorperson had turned things over to the station's weatherperson for what to expect this weekend.
Canadian Reporterperson Announces Policepersons Have Identified Gunperson
VANCOUVER — Canadian reporterpersons announced that policepersons have confirmed the identify of the gunperson in Tumbler Ridge.
How the community of Tumbler Ridge is grieving after this week's tragedy — CBC News
Residents of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., are coming together to grieve the devastating deadly shooting at the town's high school. The close-knit community has been left reeling after eight victims — including six children — were killed. Flags remain at half-mast.
Personally, I hate to disagree with the trans community, whoever the fuck they are, but I think the approach to grow the community and normalize it is going to lead to a lot of fucked up people. I've heard quite a few cases already of people who transitioned, cutting off their biological parts, only to find out they were suffering from mental illnesses like clinical depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. Expect more of these tragedies.
Or some other fucking tragedies. A statistical one-in-a-million shot tells you nothing about the group from which the person comes or with which the person identifies.
If the group is significant, it should be noted that, down hereabouts anyhow, most mass shooters are young (21-30) heterosexual White men.
Within hours of the first reports, many commentators did what they almost always do in crime coverage: they started sketching the perpetrator in demographic shorthand. Age. Appearance. Sex. In some accounts, the suspect was described as “female.” In others, as a “female with brown hair, wearing a dress.” Female wasn’t a throwaway adjective. It was part of the mental picture readers were being asked to form.
The adjective “female” stuck out. Not because women are incapable of violence, but because in this specific category of atrocity, female perpetrators are rare enough that the descriptor does cognitive work. Your brain can’t help it. It starts asking: What’s different here? What explains the outlier? You don’t have to like that instinct for it to be real.
If a newsroom believes sex is relevant enough to include in the first wave of reporting, relevant enough to help the public picture the perpetrator when our only context is “18,” “female,” “dress” and “brown hair,” then sex can’t become irrelevant the moment it gets complicated.
Either the public deserves a clear picture of who we’re discussing, or it doesn’t. Either sex is useful context, or it’s not. Treating “female” as a singularly normal adjective while treating “trans” as unspeakable isn’t neutral reporting. The rule here isn’t “always mention it” or “never mention it.” It’s relevance, consistency, and honesty about what you’re doing.
If an identity marker doesn’t clarify the story, leave it out. If it does clarify the picture you’ve already asked readers to form, then say it plainly once it’s confirmed, instead of letting people piece it together through rumour and resentment. In any story about such an atrocity, being “trans” is at least as relevant as being “female.”
Julia Malott: I'm transgender. It's wrong to hide mass shooter's trans identity — National Post
Treating 'female' as a normal adjective while treating 'trans' as unspeakable isn’t neutral reporting