When officers entered the school on Tuesday afternoon, they found six victims deceased, RCMP confirmed.
An individual believed to be the shooter was also found deceased with what appears to be a self‑inflicted injury.
Two victims have been airlifted to the hospital with serious or life‑threatening injuries. A third victim died while being transported to hospital. Approximately 25 others are being assessed and triaged at the local medical centre for non‑life‑threatening injuries.
The active shooter alert was lifted at 5:46 p.m. PT.
And yet Canadian legal gun owners have to pay for that. With the gun bans of the past 6 years banned almost every semi-automatic rifle by name, grandfathering all handguns, and now shotguns are being added to the list.
They are also looking to expand rifle bans to include any rifle with a detachable magazine… news flash: most bolt-action rifles have detachable magazines.
What the hell do you need a gun for! Get lost.
Tell me you live in a big city without saying it
Hunt.
Stop hunting, there are very few wild animals left. We have farms, eat farmed meat.
Tell me again you never leave the city
Vancouver island has too many deer to the point where it’s a problem if we don’t shoot some of them
Ever heard of the deer problem on haida gwaii? Every deer killed there is beneficial to the island…
We’ve killed off vast amounts of natural predators. Hunting is regulated and often an important part of population control for the hunted animal. It also isn’t just about harvesting the meat, for many it is a deeply rooted cultural tradition.
Tradition is not a good argument for continued practice. Many traditions were and are objectively wrong.
The population control argument is rich. We don’t regulate the most destructive species on the planet.
I’m pretty sure most of Canada is rural as shit and has like bears and giant moose and stuff. I’d probably want a gun in that environment. I cant really comment for real though, im in the UK and the wilderness is tame as fuck here.
Uh no not really, like most developed countries we’re primarily urban… I’ve lived in the boreal forest and nobody has guns for bears lol.
Sovereignty
Morons advocating for gun ownership is how we lose sovereignty.
Average citizens participating in politics and demanding justice is how we keep sovereignty.
So good will and vibes keeps Canada sovereign got it. I hope Russia China and America support our vibes.
The USA has nuclear missiles.
So your position is anti-gun as a deterrent, but pro-nuclear proliferation as a deterrent?
Your argument is Americans would threaten nuclear war against Canada, when the vast majority of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border and 70% of Canadians are south of the 49th parallel?
Or are you suggesting the US would first strike Nunavut?
The finns won the winter war outnumbered 100 to 1, the US doesn’t scare me
And I sure as shit hope our citizens have guns because europe isn’t going to show up to help us
Also I live in Victoria. How is the US going to nuke me without blowing up the Puget sound base in the process?
I don’t dream of wars, only stupid people do. Stop idolizing war, get a life.
Keep your head in the sand then. Canada is likely going to war this year. Russia will bomb Estonia.
An individual with a firearm isn’t keeping anything sovereign. This is the domain of national diplomacy and state militaries. Keep larping though.
It’s not about the “sovereign citizen” or “rugged individualists” as a first line of defense for their nation’s sovereignty.
But it hasn’t even been a month since the PM gave this wake-up call:
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Americans are not “following the rules” normally afforded to Western powers and we are hopelessly outmatched militarily. But consider how the US has lost foreign military conflicts when faced with armed local insurgencies in the past several decades.
What is inherently wrong with gun ownership? Every house in switzerland has an assault rifle.
I think every canadian should have mandatory firearms training too and I think that the PAL is currently far too easy to get. I just did my PAL…it’s designed for the average albertan to pass. Lol
Participating in politics and demanding justice are liberal democratic tools of effective governance that should be encouraged and celebrated.
Sovereignty is about the independence of the state, international autonomy, and territorial integrity.
When your neighbour routinely threatens your sovereignty and that neighbour happens to lead the world in defense spending and guns per capita, it might be time to consider a CFSC course.
A bunch of childish nonsense
We get it dude. You like guns. It’s like… every post I see by you.
Do this some other day.
Yeah, I’m not super versed in Canadian gun law, I never really had the interest 🤷.
That said, everything I’ve heard about new bans/restrictions coming in from my friends and family who hunt sound incredibly reactionary with no actual aim to fix the issues that they state are the aim…
The money being spent on the ban could be used much more effectively to reduce crime by investing it elsewhere such as mental health services. Many local police forces have refused to participate (its optional for them) citing their resources are better spent elsewhere which will push the costs onto the RCMP.