One of the more perplexing oddities about the coverage is the legacy
media insisting that the shooter was a female because that's what the shooter "identified" as but their equal insistence on giving him the
surname Van Rotselaar, which was his father's name but one the shooter absolutely refused to use for his entire life: he always used his
MOTHER'S surname, Strang. (The parents were apparently profoundly
estranged and had been for a very long time.) New media speculates that
the use of the father's last name was a ploy by the media to keep people from looking up all the social media content he published as Jesse
Strang.
Here is one such video which appears to show a massively deranged individual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO1ZHJnub4 [1 minute]
On Feb 15, 2026 at 7:07:12 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
One of the more perplexing oddities about the coverage is the legacy
media insisting that the shooter was a female because that's what the
shooter "identified" as but their equal insistence on giving him the
surname Van Rotselaar, which was his father's name but one the shooter
absolutely refused to use for his entire life: he always used his
MOTHER'S surname, Strang. (The parents were apparently profoundly
estranged and had been for a very long time.) New media speculates that
the use of the father's last name was a ploy by the media to keep people
from looking up all the social media content he published as Jesse
Strang.
Here is one such video which appears to show a massively deranged
individual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO1ZHJnub4 [1 minute]
"There were no signs!"
On 2026-02-15 1:27 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Feb 15, 2026 at 7:07:12 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >> wrote:According to Jordan Peterson, a psychologist with many years of
One of the more perplexing oddities about the coverage is the legacy
media insisting that the shooter was a female because that's what the
shooter "identified" as but their equal insistence on giving him the
surname Van Rotselaar, which was his father's name but one the shooter
absolutely refused to use for his entire life: he always used his
MOTHER'S surname, Strang. (The parents were apparently profoundly
estranged and had been for a very long time.) New media speculates that >>> the use of the father's last name was a ploy by the media to keep people >>> from looking up all the social media content he published as Jesse
Strang.
Here is one such video which appears to show a massively deranged
individual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO1ZHJnub4 [1 minute]
"There were no signs!"
experience, the large majority of young people who think they might be
trans eventually realize they are actually homosexuals and are
relatively content. Pumping them full of powerful drugs to honour their delusion that they are the opposite sex would appear to be the exact opposite of helping them.
The people who make our health policies need to decide if they actually
want to help those with mental issues or if they merely want to pander
to their delusions for ideological reasons. Have the mental health institutions been irrevocably captured by ideologues or can sane people
be put back in charge? The same question applies to ALL of our
institutions, especially academia from kindergarten through university
and our media.
On Feb 15, 2026 at 11:05:44 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-02-15 1:27 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Feb 15, 2026 at 7:07:12 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>According to Jordan Peterson, a psychologist with many years of
wrote:
One of the more perplexing oddities about the coverage is the legacy >>>> media insisting that the shooter was a female because that's what the >>>> shooter "identified" as but their equal insistence on giving him the >>>> surname Van Rotselaar, which was his father's name but one the shooter >>>> absolutely refused to use for his entire life: he always used his
MOTHER'S surname, Strang. (The parents were apparently profoundly
estranged and had been for a very long time.) New media speculates that >>>> the use of the father's last name was a ploy by the media to keep people >>>> from looking up all the social media content he published as Jesse
Strang.
Here is one such video which appears to show a massively deranged
individual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO1ZHJnub4 [1 minute]
"There were no signs!"
experience, the large majority of young people who think they might be
trans eventually realize they are actually homosexuals and are
relatively content. Pumping them full of powerful drugs to honour their
delusion that they are the opposite sex would appear to be the exact
opposite of helping them.
Drugs have been my theory about the cause of school shootings for a long time.
Not just the transformer killers, either.
We didn't have school shootings when I was a kid, despite guns being just as accessible-- actually, *more* accessible-- to minors as they are today. Hell, where I lived in Texas, it was quite common for some of the rural kids to drive to school with a shotgun or rifle in a window rack in their pickup truck
so they could go hunting after school let out. What changed between then and now?
Drugs.
When I was a kid, we weren't all hopped up on mood-altering drugs. At some point, all the adults, from the parents to the teachers to the school administrators to the psychologists, all decided that the best way to treat any behavioral problem in a child is to prescribe the kid a bunch of drugs that are specifically designed to change their brain chemistry. And now every three months or so we end up with a massacre. Coincidence? I think not.
And it also explains why this seems to be a uniquely American/Canadian phenomenon. European countries, Latin American countries, Asian countries, none of them use drugs to treat even the most minor behavioral issues in their
children with massive amounts of drugs. And they don't have school shootings, despite guns being widely accessible in some of those places.
The people who make our health policies need to decide if they actually
want to help those with mental issues or if they merely want to pander
to their delusions for ideological reasons. Have the mental health
institutions been irrevocably captured by ideologues or can sane people
be put back in charge? The same question applies to ALL of our
institutions, especially academia from kindergarten through university
and our media.
Drugs have been my theory about the cause of school shootings for a long time. >Not just the transformer killers, either.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
Drugs have been my theory about the cause of school shootings for a long time.
Not just the transformer killers, either.
You must not question psychiatry. It's an exact science!
And yes, I'd sure as hell want to discuss gun safety and whether there
should be weapons persons like the perpetrator may access. I'd say sue
the mother but she's been punished enough.
On 2026-02-15 2:28 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Feb 15, 2026 at 11:05:44 AM PST, "Rhino"I have not heard of a single "deep dive" into the lives of the various school shooters - trans or otherwise - to see just what their
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
On 2026-02-15 1:27 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
˙ On Feb 15, 2026 at 7:07:12 AM PST, "Rhino"According to Jordan Peterson, a psychologist with many years of
<no_offline_contact@example.com>
˙ wrote:
˙ One of the more perplexing oddities about the coverage is the legacy >>>>> ˙ media insisting that the shooter was a female because that's what >>>>> the˙ "There were no signs!"
˙ shooter "identified" as but their equal insistence on giving him the >>>>> ˙ surname Van Rotselaar, which was his father's name but one the
shooter
˙ absolutely refused to use for his entire life: he always used his
˙ MOTHER'S surname, Strang. (The parents were apparently profoundly
˙ estranged and had been for a very long time.) New media
speculates that
˙ the use of the father's last name was a ploy by the media to keep >>>>> people
˙ from looking up all the social media content he published as Jesse >>>>> ˙ Strang.
˙ Here is one such video which appears to show a massively deranged
˙ individual:
˙ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO1ZHJnub4 [1 minute]
experience, the large majority of young people who think they might be
trans eventually realize they are actually homosexuals and are
relatively content. Pumping them full of powerful drugs to honour their
delusion that they are the opposite sex would appear to be the exact
opposite of helping them.
Drugs have been my theory about the cause of school shootings for a
long time.
Not just the transformer killers, either.
We didn't have school shootings when I was a kid, despite guns being
just as
accessible-- actually, *more* accessible-- to minors as they are
today. Hell,
where I lived in Texas, it was quite common for some of the rural kids to
drive to school with a shotgun or rifle in a window rack in their
pickup truck
so they could go hunting after school let out. What changed between
then and
now?
Drugs.
When I was a kid, we weren't all hopped up on mood-altering drugs. At
some
point, all the adults, from the parents to the teachers to the school
administrators to the psychologists, all decided that the best way to
treat
any behavioral problem in a child is to prescribe the kid a bunch of
drugs
that are specifically designed to change their brain chemistry. And
now every
three months or so we end up with a massacre. Coincidence? I think not.
And it also explains why this seems to be a uniquely American/Canadian
phenomenon. European countries, Latin American countries, Asian
countries,
none of them use drugs to treat even the most minor behavioral issues
in their
children with massive amounts of drugs. And they don't have school
shootings,
despite guns being widely accessible in some of those places.
backgrounds were. When did they start deviating from the norm, whether
in their sexuality, politics, or whatever? To what extent were the
people around them aware that something was wrong? What was done about
it? For those who were medicated, what medications did they get and what supervision did they get to make sure the medications were working and
not making things worse?
I truly don't know if those deep dives simply weren't undertaken at all
or if they WERE taken and the findings just suppressed. I could well
imagine the authorities deciding "the shooter is dead and is never going
to hurt anyone again so why spend tax money investigating?". I can also imagine some dogged individual going ahead and doing the research anyway
but then discovering that the government went a long way to enabling the shooter by ignoring dangerous behaviour or supplying dubious treatment -
˙like "gender-affirming care" - and then having the findings suppressed
by governments that fear getting sued for negligence or that fear
alienating certain activist groups.
Someday, I expect whistle-blowers to reveal just what happened behind
the scenes. At that point, I fully expect to learn that indifference and ideology caused a lot of bad decisions.
The people who make our health policies need to decide if they actually
want to help those with mental issues or if they merely want to pander
to their delusions for ideological reasons. Have the mental health
institutions been irrevocably captured by ideologues or can sane people
be put back in charge? The same question applies to ALL of our
institutions, especially academia from kindergarten through university
and our media.
On 2026-02-15 2:28 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Feb 15, 2026 at 11:05:44 AM PST, "Rhino"I have not heard of a single "deep dive" into the lives of
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2026-02-15 1:27 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Feb 15, 2026 at 7:07:12 AM PST, "Rhino"According to Jordan Peterson, a psychologist with many
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
One of the more perplexing oddities about the
coverage is the legacy media insisting that the
shooter was a female because that's what the shooter
"identified" as but their equal insistence on giving
him the surname Van Rotselaar, which was his
father's name but one the shooter absolutely refused
to use for his entire life: he always used his
MOTHER'S surname, Strang. (The parents were
apparently profoundly estranged and had been for a
very long time.) New media speculates that the use
of the father's last name was a ploy by the media to
keep people from looking up all the social media
content he published as Jesse Strang.
Here is one such video which appears to show a
massively deranged individual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkO1ZHJnub4 [1
minute]
"There were no signs!"
years of experience, the large majority of young people
who think they might be trans eventually realize they
are actually homosexuals and are relatively content.
Pumping them full of powerful drugs to honour their
delusion that they are the opposite sex would appear to
be the exact opposite of helping them.
Drugs have been my theory about the cause of school
shootings for a long time. Not just the transformer
killers, either.
We didn't have school shootings when I was a kid, despite
guns being just as accessible-- actually, *more*
accessible-- to minors as they are today. Hell, where I
lived in Texas, it was quite common for some of the rural
kids to drive to school with a shotgun or rifle in a
window rack in their pickup truck so they could go
hunting after school let out. What changed between then
and now?
Drugs.
When I was a kid, we weren't all hopped up on
mood-altering drugs. At some point, all the adults, from
the parents to the teachers to the school administrators
to the psychologists, all decided that the best way to
treat any behavioral problem in a child is to prescribe
the kid a bunch of drugs that are specifically designed
to change their brain chemistry. And now every three
months or so we end up with a massacre. Coincidence? I
think not.
And it also explains why this seems to be a uniquely
American/Canadian phenomenon. European countries, Latin
American countries, Asian countries, none of them use
drugs to treat even the most minor behavioral issues in
their children with massive amounts of drugs. And they
don't have school shootings, despite guns being widely
accessible in some of those places.
the various school shooters - trans or otherwise - to see
just what their backgrounds were. When did they start
deviating from the norm, whether in their sexuality,
politics, or whatever? To what extent were the people
around them aware that something was wrong? What was done
about it? For those who were medicated, what medications
did they get and what supervision did they get to make
sure the medications were working and not making things
worse?
I truly don't know if those deep dives simply weren't
undertaken at all or if they WERE taken and the findings
just suppressed. I could well imagine the authorities
deciding "the shooter is dead and is never going to hurt
anyone again so why spend tax money investigating?". I can
also imagine some dogged individual going ahead and doing
the research anyway but then discovering that the
government went a long way to enabling the shooter by
ignoring dangerous behaviour or supplying dubious
treatment -
like "gender-affirming care" - and then having the
findings suppressed
by governments that fear getting sued for negligence or
that fear alienating certain activist groups.
Someday, I expect whistle-blowers to reveal just what
happened behind the scenes. At that point, I fully expect
to learn that indifference and ideology caused a lot of
bad decisions.
The people who make our health policies need to decide
if they actually want to help those with mental issues
or if they merely want to pander to their delusions for
ideological reasons. Have the mental health institutions
been irrevocably captured by ideologues or can sane
people be put back in charge? The same question applies
to ALL of our institutions, especially academia from
kindergarten through university and our media.
Police identified Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18 years old, as the prime
suspect in the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, mass murder. "Assigned
male at birth," she began transitioning to female six years ago. She
killed herself at the main crime scene.
Six victims were found dead at the scene, a secondary school. Two
relatives of the perpetrator were found dead at home. Dozens and dozens
more were injured.
On Feb 11, 2026, Adam H. Kerman wrote
Police identified Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18 years old, as the prime
suspect in the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, mass murder. "Assigned
male at birth," she began transitioning to female six years ago. She
killed herself at the main crime scene.
Six victims were found dead at the scene, a secondary school. Two
relatives of the perpetrator were found dead at home. Dozens and dozens
more were injured.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-02-11-26
Transgender and mentally ill people are more often
victims than perpetrators of violence.
On 2026-02-11 6:06 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Police identified Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18 years old, as the prime
suspect in the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, mass murder. "Assigned
male at birth," she began transitioning to female six years ago. She
killed herself at the main crime scene.
Six victims were found dead at the scene, a secondary school. Two
relatives of the perpetrator were found dead at home. Dozens and dozens
more were injured.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-02-11-26?post-id=cmliahywe00003b6rid2t1xdr
The police and media have only just finally gotten around to admitting
that the shooter was male after initial police reports said "Suspect >described as female in a dress with brown hair". But even now, they only >acknowledge that he was *born* male and explain that he's been
"identifying" as a female for the past 6 years. Still, that's more than
they admitted on the first day when they only enumerated the number of >victims and said they the shooter had committed suicide and there was
not thought to be any further danger. They claimed it was far too early
in the investigation to identify the shooter or victims or speculate on
the motivation for the crimes.
Today, they admitted his gender and also that the Mounties were very >familiar with the shooter because they'd been to the family home several >times to deal with violence from this guy. They also said he'd been
housed in mental health facilities on multiple occasions.
Also, the two dead people found in a nearby house were his mother and >sibling.
The only bit of good news is that police responded to the shooting at
the school in just two minutes. That's a remarkable contrast with a
school stabbing in London UK yesterday in which a 13 year old stabbed
two schoolmates and police took 30 minutes to respond! Two minute
response time in a town on 2400 people, 30 minutes in one of the world's >bigger cities.
I hope there's a proper inquiry into this mass shooting so that we can
learn from it. Clearly, the earlier police interventions were not very >effective. Maybe if they hadn't indulged this guy in his fantasy he
might have gotten better.... I expect we'll soon learn that he was
pumped full of powerful drugs to humour his delusion about his gender.
Still, that's more than
they admitted on the first day when they only enumerated the number of >>victims and said they the shooter had committed suicide and there was
not thought to be any further danger. They claimed it was far too early
in the investigation to identify the shooter or victims or speculate on >>the motivation for the crimes.
The article I just read did not make it clear if the perpetrator was
being counted as among the six found dead at the main crime scene at the >school.
You may have heard about a case up here several years back where a guy
on a lengthy bus trip between provinces went bonkers and killed the guy >sitting beside him and then began EATING him. He was diagnosed as
mentally deficient and deemed unfit for trial. He was sent to a mental >health facility and after a few years, the doctors, who'd diagnosed him
as schizophrenic, released him essentially on the promise that he'd stay
on his meds. As far as I know, he's been behaving himself since then but
I keep waiting to hear that he's gone off the meds again and committed
some horrific deed. I say that because I've seen a number of dramas
where that is exactly what happens with some people that need strong
drugs who feel that the drugs "dull" them: they stop taking them so they
can feel right again. Then very bad things happen....
Transgender and mentally ill people are more often
victims than perpetrators of violence.
Also perhaps the shooter was bullied, which may have
led to this tragic event.
I saw an article from the Daily Mail reviewing social media criticism of
how seemingly concerned the RCMP has been about the, er, gunperson's >pronouns, with little or no empathy for victims who were generally
children. Even the murdered stepbrother, at the initial crime scene, was
11 years old. I thought that the entire point of a homicide
investigation is that police, forensic pathologists, and prosecutors are >there to speak for the dead as they are no longer able to speak for >themselves. In this case, the police are speaking for the murderer.
And I'd really like to know where the guns came from. Did the family
just keep them at home despite knowing what "she" was like?
On 2026-02-12 11:53 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:By watching some "new media" sources, I learned that the shooter may
On 2026-02-11 7:53 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
On Feb 11, 2026 at 3:06:33 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote: >>
Police identified Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18 years old, as the prime >>>>>> suspect in the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, mass murder. "Assigned >>>>>> male at birth," she began transitioning to female six years ago. She >>>>>> killed herself at the main crime scene.
The media is describing the killer as "the gunperson" now, since they don't
want to misgender the killer and be rude to him or anything.
We're not allowed to say perpetrator if we are so terribly concerned
about misuse of gendered words? How about killer?
have been gunning for his other siblings at the school when he went on
his rampage. Rebel News interviewed the father of one girl who was
hiding in the same place as a sibling of the shooter. The shooter, who >different reports have said was 15, 17, or 18, had apparently attended
that school in the past but had dropped out 3 or 4 years ago. I don't
know how early kids can drop out of school in BC but, even assuming the >oldest claimed aged for the shooter, that would have him dropping out at
14 or 15. That seems awfully young, especially in a province that often
has NDP governments as BC has had for the last several years.
Seriously, I'm going to disagree with BTR1701 a little bit. I used the
damn pronoun to emphasize that the "help" the perpetrator received
consisted of male to female transistioning, entirely ignoring serious
underlying issues.
I hadn't heard that but it would be utterly consistent with the
attitudes of our elites. I remember a controversy about the treatment of >trans people in Parliament several years back with some Conservatives >arguing that it should be the right of parents to employ de-programmers
(or whatever the current term is) to help their kids. Parliament
resolutely insisted that the ONLY allowable treatment was
"gender-affirming care".
While pre-crime ain't predictable, it damn well
appears that these issues were both well known and left unaddressed, and
that the transitioning combined with failure to address underlying
issues made everything worse. This was someone with known violent
tendancies.
And I'd really like to know where the guns came from. Did the family
just keep them at home despite knowing what "she" was like?
Also, the family was not intact. Apparently, the father has been out of
the picture for a while and lives somewhere in BC. The mother and her >various kids have moved around a fair bit, including to Newfoundland,
but returned to BC because the father petitioned for that since he
wanted his kids to be closer to him (geographically). It's unclear if
the father of the other kids was in the picture anywhere let alone
living in the house so we have no idea if the guns were his.
The shooter had a firearms permit allowing him to use guns but that had >expired in 2024. The shooter apparently also posted YouTube videos about >guns which have been taken down: guns were apparently one of his passions.
I fully expect this to drive a renewed frenzy to take away the remaining >guns that people are still allowed to have. The Liberal base just LOVES
it when their party virtue-signals about taking guns away. They recently >decided to do a national rollout a gun "buyback" scheme that had been
tried in one area of Eastern Canada despite a dismal result with only a >handful of guns turned in. Not even the police want anything to do with
this scheme so, of course, it needs to be made a national priority. Now
that this shooting has occurred, I expect the Liberals to push the
"buyback" even harder with the CBC (and other MSM) all clapping vigorously.
On 2026-02-12 3:32 p.m., danny burstein wrote:
In <10ml0hc$1jkpn$1@dont-email.me> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes: >> [snip]That's the standard answer if you ask Canadian police and politicians: >smugglers are bringing them in from the US where guns are widely owned. >(They used to claim that the guns are being stolen from legitimate >gun-owners on this side of the border but I don't hear that claim any
And I'd really like to know where the guns came from.
Time to set up a Kalshi prediction: The US?
more.)
Officers have been accused of giving information to organized crime to
both enrich themselves and to help organized crime, such as the crooked
tow truck industry. They're even accused of helping criminals murder
their enemies. It's so bad that Doug Ford has created (or energized) a >province-wide investigator whose team is going to look at ALL of the
police services in the province to - supposedly - root out corruption. I >haven't heard a timeline yet but I have to expect that such a mission
will take *years* to conduct.
On 2026-02-12 6:25 p.m., danny burstein wrote:
In <10mljiq$1m2m0$3@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:You don't need the "sic", Canadian Tire is the name by which everyone
[snip]
I don't know if it's made the news in your country yet but the GTA
(Greater Toronto Area) and specifically the Toronto Police Service are
under very close scrutiny by the provincial government as of the last
few days in the wake of a massive scandal involving corrupt police
officers and organized crime working hand-in-glove. Seven serving
officers and one police retiree have already been charged and there is a >>> strong likelihood that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone
expects those 8 officers to rat out others as they try to make deals to
mitigate their own exposure.
knows them. (I expect their official name is Canadian Tire Corporation
or something like that but we all know exactly who you mean when you say >"Canadian Tire".
My real question, of course, is what happened to make this common
practice suddenly become embarassingly news worthy? Did they arrest
Ford's sister in law or make some other mistake?
I'm a little embarrassed to say I don't really know quite how this
bubbled up into a major scandal. This week-old article may give you what
you want, at least in broad outlines.
Speaking of Doug Ford, his son-in-law is a long-serving police officer
and he's undergoing disciplinary proceedings at the moment (and for the
past two years) but this doesn't seem to be connected to the corruption >scandal.
It may well have been at some point. I think we were originally more
British in our terminology than we are now. For instance, I was looking
at an article on the Toronto Police before we got independence in 1867
and they were getting paid in shillings, not dollars. And I still
remember when we used miles and gallons instead of meters and liters; we >only started going metric in 1979 and some of us still think and speak
of imperial units rather than metric ones.
The founders of Canadian Tire were the Billies Brothers and the company
was founded just after WWI. I wouldn't be shocked if they initially
called it Canadian Tyre. Did you know that most of the Canadians who
fought in WWI had actually been born in the UK?
In Canada Ontario and Quebec have their own province police services
while the RCMP provides police services in much of the rest of the
country minus local police forces in major cities. Thus in BC Surrey
and the city of Vancouver (the 2 biggest components of Metro
Vancouver) have their own police while almost all of the rest are RCMP >detachments.
There are trans people, as I claim on my Eight Sexual Harmonics
matchmaking theory page
Yes, there are also people who put up websites saying the earth is flat.
Good example, inasmuch as the earth *isn't* (perfectly) round...
On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:07:30 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
It may well have been at some point. I think we were originally more
British in our terminology than we are now. For instance, I was looking
at an article on the Toronto Police before we got independence in 1867
and they were getting paid in shillings, not dollars. And I still
remember when we used miles and gallons instead of meters and liters; we
only started going metric in 1979 and some of us still think and speak
of imperial units rather than metric ones.
Part of that was probably due to the federal government pushing hard
on the metric system but a large part of the conversion happened
around the time the price of gas first went over Cdn $1.00 per gallon
as converting gas pumps from cents per gallon to cents per liter was a
lot cheaper than converting from cents per gallon to dollars per
gallon. (Of course it's now over a dollar per liter so they had to
eventually convert their pumps and I'm sure the customers paid for
that too somewhere along the way...)
On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:18:02 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
Officers have been accused of giving information to organized crime toFor those unfamiliar Doug Ford is Premier of Ontario which has about
both enrich themselves and to help organized crime, such as the crooked
tow truck industry. They're even accused of helping criminals murder
their enemies. It's so bad that Doug Ford has created (or energized) a
province-wide investigator whose team is going to look at ALL of the
police services in the province to - supposedly - root out corruption. I
haven't heard a timeline yet but I have to expect that such a mission
will take *years* to conduct.
38-39% of the Canadian population. No state governor in the US is as important to Washington as the Ontario provincial government is to
Ottawa. Most policing in Ontario is done by the Ontario Provincial
Police though there are important local forces in major cities.
In Canada Ontario and Quebec have their own province police services
while the RCMP provides police services in much of the rest of the
country minus local police forces in major cities. Thus in BC Surrey
and the city of Vancouver (the 2 biggest components of Metro
Vancouver) have their own police while almost all of the rest are RCMP detachments.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:53:00 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
I saw an article from the Daily Mail reviewing social media criticism ofVery well said!
how seemingly concerned the RCMP has been about the, er, gunperson's
pronouns, with little or no empathy for victims who were generally
children. Even the murdered stepbrother, at the initial crime scene, was
11 years old. I thought that the entire point of a homicide
investigation is that police, forensic pathologists, and prosecutors are
there to speak for the dead as they are no longer able to speak for
themselves. In this case, the police are speaking for the murderer.
And I'd really like to know where the guns came from. Did the family
just keep them at home despite knowing what "she" was like?
And THAT is the $64000 question right?
Second Amendment notwithstanding if you have a mentally unstable
person living or visiting in your home YOU not the state are
responsble for securing the weapons and if you can't do that within
your home you have a civic duty to remove the weapons from your home.
And I would impose a "strict responsibility" on that (which is a legal
term meaning 'if you fail to do so and something goes wrong, you're responsible no ifs ands or buts")
And I would argue there should definitely be legal sanctions if you
the gun owner fail in that duty.
Basic civics - and that SHOULDN'T be an issue of constitutional
rights.
I've heard flat earthers insist the world IS round but flat and that's
not unnatural - after all so is a pizza....not sure how serious or
otherwise they were though my suspicion is that most of them know but
keep up the front.
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