Mass Murder in Transada
“Ten people including the shooter are dead after an assailant opened fire at a high school in western Canada on Tuesday,” read the Feb. 10 report from Reuters. The high school is in the town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia (BC) with a population of about 2400. The first public alert described the shooter as “a female in a dress with brown hair.” Aside from the antecedent, that required some explanation.
According to Dwayne McDonald, deputy commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the province, shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, was born a male but began to transition to female about six years ago. Asked if Van Rootselaar was “transgender,” McDonald said they were identifying her “as they chose to be identified in public and in social media.” That too raised an issue.
As RCMP officers know, any murder suspect can choose to identify as innocent, but the court doesn’t leave it up to the suspect. Police and prosecutors present scientific evidence such as fingerprints, blood tests, ballistics, and DNA to see if the defendant’s claim is true or false. By all indications, the RCMP did not examine Van Rootselaar’s skeletal structure, internal organs or anything else to test the claim that he was a “woman.” As it happened, the Mounties, whose motto is Mantiens le Droit (maintain the right), were already familiar with the suspect.
RCMP officers had been to Van Rootselaar’s residence “on multiple occasions over the past several years, dealing with concerns of mental health.” No word whether the shooter’s “transition” was in any way related to those mental health “concerns.” Mental patients sometimes claim to be Marilyn Monroe, Napoleon, and other famous persons, but that does not make it so.
On several occasions, Van Rootselaar was “apprehended for assessment and follow up” and “firearms were seized from the home and later returned after the owner petitioned for them.” Apparently Canada’s gun laws, described in reports as much stricter than those in the USA, did not prevent the deadly rampage in Tumbler Ridge.
A “long gun and a modified handgun” were found on the scene but politicians did not blame the attack on “gun violence” or weak gun laws. Van Rootselaar shot dead 10 and CBC reported “27 injured,” an anodyne term more suitable for an accident, and according to Reuters, the shooter was found dead “from what appeared to be a self‑inflicted injury.” So the Mounties and local police did not protect the school and played no role in takedown of Van Rootselaar.
The man described as a woman had also shot dead his mother and stepbrother before moving on to the school. For all but the willfully blind, this is a mass murder, but “crime,” and “murderer” were missing from the many politically correct news reports.
CNN named victims Emmett Jacobs, 11, and Jennifer Jacobs, 39, shot dead at the house, and school victims Abel Mwansa, 12; Ezekiel Schofield, 13; Kylie Smith, 12; Zoey Benoit, 12; Ticaria Lampert, 12; and Shannda Aviugana-Durand, 39. Zambia-born Abel Mwansa was black but no word of a racism as a possible motive, and no mention of a “hate crime” by the shooter. BC Premier David Eby, of the socialist New Democratic Party, did not name or condemn Rootselaar and called the mass murder an “unimaginable tragedy,” once again, a term better suited for a deadly accident or natural disaster.
“We have been here before—École Polytechnique in Montreal, the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, La Loche, Saskatchewan, Humboldt, Portapique, Nova Scotia,” said Prime Minister Mark Carney of the Liberal Party. Carney failed to name a single victim, did not condemn Van Rootselaar, and offered no word on any “crime” he committed. None of the “terrible situations” Carney mentioned involved a male shooter who identified as a woman.
In Humboldt, Saskatchewan, a truck driver crashed into a bus, killing 15 hockey players. And the Nova Scotia shooter, Gabriel Wortman, probably would have claimed fewer victims if the RCMP had simply deployed a standard emergency alert instead of resorting to Twitter. That left many Nova Scotians in the dark about the 13-hour rampage that claimed 22 lives.
A better reference point for what happened in this Tumbler Ridge massacre would be Audrey Hale, a woman who thought she was man.
On March 27, 2023, in the run-up to the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance,” Audrey Hale barged into a Nashville school and shot dead nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, along with adults Katherine Koonce, Mike Hill and Cynthia Peak. As the autopsies revealed, after shooting the victims at point-blank range, Hale applied “blunt force trauma” to William Kinney and Katherine Koonce, who took bullets in the head.
Trans activists, the FBI, and local police then blocked the release of Hale’s hate-filled manifesto. Victim Mike Hill was black but, again, there was no mention of racism as a motive for the crime as we might have expected had the shooter had other demographic characteristics. The Biden White House failed to condemn Hale and named not a single murder victim. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.”
Last Aug. 27, Robert Westman, a man who thought he was the woman “Robin” Westman, shot up the Annunciation Catholic Church, killing eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel, 10-year-old Harper Moyski, and wounding 29 others. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey was quick to speak out: “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity.” No condemnation of the murderer, who wanted to kill children, and no naming of the victims. This was the same brand of response that has followed Tumbler Ridge.
In a statement of more than 500 words BC human rights commissioner Kasari Govander failed to condemn the mass murderer or call his action a crime. Van Rooselaar took away the children’s basic right to life, but Govander failed to name a single victim. The human rights commissioner was “disappointed by the anti-trans disinformation and the hateful narratives that are being spread” and proclaimed that “using this horrific incident to conflate trans identities with violent tendencies is incorrect, irresponsible and frankly dangerous.” And so on.
The dynamic in play here is reality dysphoria, which is now enforcing the unreality pervasive in Canada. National leaders are all-in and BC’s University of Victoria features a chair in “transgender studies.” The RCMP no longer will “stand on guard for thee,” as the national anthem says. In Transada, murderers of children escape official condemnation. If any parent thought that was evil, it would be hard to blame them.