Ten Dead in Canadian School Mass Shooting

I genuinely hate anyone saying that mass shootings are “a uniquely American phenomenon.” That’s not remotely true. We’ve seen them all over the world. If you say we have a unique problem with them, I might agree, but they’re far from uniquely American.

Bondi Beach should have dispelled that nonsense.

It hasn’t, though, unfortunately.

Neither will an unfortunate situation that took place in Canada on Tuesday.

Ten people, including the suspected shooter, were killed after a woman opened fire at a high school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Tuesday before apparently turning the gun on herself, police said.

Six victims were found inside the school, while two others were discovered at a nearby residence believed to be connected to the incident. Another person died en route to hospital. The suspected shooter was also found dead at the scene from what authorities described as a self-inflicted injury. Police said they do not believe there are additional suspects or any ongoing threat to the public.

At least two individuals remain hospitalized with serious or life-threatening injuries, and around 25 others are being treated for non-life-threatening wounds.

Scene and Investigation

Tumbler Ridge is a remote community of roughly 2,400 residents in northern British Columbia, situated in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The small town was placed under an active shooter alert as police responded to what authorities described as a “very dramatic” scene inside the school.

Police identified the suspect as a woman a rare detail in mass shootings in North America, which are overwhelmingly carried out by men. Superintendent Ken Floyd confirmed that the individual described in the initial alert was the same person later found dead in the school. Authorities have not yet disclosed how many of the victims were minors.

The fact that this was a female shooter is a bit of an anomaly, to be sure, but it’s not unheard of. There are also some rumors that the killer was actually transgender, though I haven’t found confirmation for that as of this writing.

Nine innocent people are dead. Others are injured, and the killer was found dead as well. Right now, there’s not a lot of information about the shooting itself, including where the killer came from, how she got a gun, what kind of gun she used, or anything like that.

I’m sure we’ll see plenty of that in the coming days, and it’ll be interesting to see, even if the event itself is downright horrifying.

It’s worth remembering that this shooting happened in gun-controlled Canada, which is currently looking at still more gun control in the coming weeks/months with its “assault weapon buyback.” They already banned the transfer of handguns

It doesn’t seem to have done much good here, now does it?

Of course, it’s possible this shooting involved a firearm that was never going to be considered for restrictions before now, so it’s not relevant. I don’t see how, though, considering they’ve already restricted the guns that are typically used for something like this. Again, a fat lot of good that did for anyone there.

Sooner or later, we need to start looking at what is wrong with these people and start treating these massacres as a people issue, rather than just blaming the weapons. It won’t start in Canada, though, that’s for sure.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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