The transgender gunman who murdered his mother and brother before killing six people in the second-deadliest school shooting in Canadian history is seen happily gripping a rifle in a disturbing photo.
Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, opened fire in the library at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia on Tuesday afternoon.
A female teacher was killed, alongside three girls and two boys aged between 13 and 17.
The shooter took his own life at the school. He killed his mother, Jennifer, and brother, Emmett, at their home beforehand, CTV News reported.
Photos show the teen looking somber at a birthday celebration and eating a meal with family – but then happily holding up a rifle.
So much to note here, over and above the fact that the tranny shooter was a disturbed adolescent psycho (as so many of them are). Psychos are gonna go psycho, and there doesn’t seem to be much we can do about it.
Of interest are some of the factoids surrounding the shooting itself, or rather the reaction to it. Here’s one:
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police described the suspected shooter as a “gunperson” in a press conference on Tuesday’s attack at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia.
Ah yes, politically correct speech as always. As the Bee noted, “Policeperson describes shooter as gunperson.”
Next, as any fule kno, all the gun control laws, regulations and the fuzz were useless and couldn’t prevent this attack:
The shooter, who was transitioning to female, used a handgun despite the freeze on handgun sales and transfers.
Police indicated the alleged shooter used a handgun and a long rifle. The type of long gun has yet to be made public by police, but the Associated Press noted, “The Canadian government has banned more than 2,500 makes and models of assault-style firearms in recent years.”
The ban includes “more than 1,500 models” of firearms then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made illegal on May 1, 2020.
Canada has a firearms license requirement, but the alleged shooter lacked a valid license. He had a license that expired in 2024, according to police.
Canada also has a red flag law yet, even though the alleged shooter was known to police, he was able to have two guns in his possession on Tuesday.
Ironically, police had attended the suspect’s family residence on multiple occasions over the past several years, dealing with mental health concerns of the suspect.
None of which laws worked in their intended purpose. Looks like the dead tranny just used Daddy’s guns to kill Mommy and Sis before heading off to school for the grand finale.
There’s no other way to look at this: Mentally-disturbed teenager gets hold of gun, perpetrates horrific crime in a school. And the unpleasant part: there’s nothing anyone can do about it, either before or after the fact. There’s a cogent reason for “during”, mind you — an armed guard presence in schools, which may or may not help at least contain the killings — but nobody (except for some school administrators in the southern U.S. states) seems to be willing to entertain that suggestion.
So there are going to be more.