Mass Shooting in Tumbler Ridge Canada

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Looks like it was a man in a dress. Another tragedy. More lives lost. Boys with violent tendencies cannot be told they are actually girls. The violent background of trans activism is a problem.

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BREAKING

The identity of the Tumbler Ridge shooter can now be confirmed as Jesse “Jess” Strang.

Strang is a biological male who started to “identify” as a "girl" around 2023.

Strang was raised in a family that valued hunting, and began learning how to shoot rifles when he was just a child. Many guns were kept in the family's residence.

Facebook posts from his mother indicate he may have struggled with behavioral issues, including violent tendencies, from a very young age.

Strang fatally shot 10 people prior to taking his own life.

In 2021, Strang launched a YouTube channel that was promoted by his mother on her Facebook. The channel was dedicated to "hunting, self-reliance, guns" and his other interests. At some point, Strang deleted the content on the channel and changed his handle from "Jesse Boy" to "JessJessUwU." The only remaining post on the channel was made 6 months ago and reads "I've been pretty, um, aimless."

Too busy mourning for their 'sister'.

Absolutely. It's beyond doubt that these are people with co-morbid mental health issues and "affirming" one of them blindly is not a good idea.

I’m just waiting for ‘I don’t agree with it of course, but what do you expect when women cruelly exclude them and push them to breaking point…’ blah blah blah

Which rule of misogyny is that again?

I think the "female in a dress with brown hair" descriptor was probably issued at a time when it was still necessary to provide a description enabling people to keep themselves safe. So mention of clothing and hair colour was appropriate. It gained currency in the media because they are always so content hungry in situations like this, where there is little information and a huge audience.

Only it wasn't an appropriate descriptor which kept people safe was it?

Quite.

There's an appeasement element which actually doesn't do transpeople any good in the long run.

You wouldn't normally get references to gender. It's not normal to have a female shooter.

We all bloody know.

The description should have been a male dressed as a female .
Such a tragedy and confirms my belief that nearly all trans people have mental health issues.

Only it wasn't an appropriate descriptor which kept people safe was it?

It may have been. Someone marauding around with a gun, that you need to keep as far away from as possible, may well look female just in virtue of wearing a dress. The person who provided the initial description was probably terrified, shocked and describing what they actually saw, and what other people would be seeing as they scrambled to safety, rather than playing lip service to identities.

Yes, the description of "a dress" gave it away.

Somehow I could not picture a female shooter wearing a dress, and even if she did I'm pretty certain that would not be singled out for mention in a police description.

Female mass shooters are rare but not unknown.

16 year old Brenda Spencer killed 2 adults and injured 8 children in Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, in 1979.

The Boomtown Rats sang about it in I Don't Like Mondays.

Spencer, who had an appalling childhood, is still in jail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(San_Diego)#

'Long haired man in dress' would have been accurate

I know this was in Canada where school shootings are far lower than in the US, he was however raised in what looks very like the US style gun culture. Yes mental health, boys being told they’re girls without treating the underlying mental issues etc are all contributing factors but the problem here and reason this happened was the fact he had easy access to weapons capable of killing 10 people. This is the reason this type of crime is so rare in the UK. When this happens in America all the far-right gun enthusiasts go on about how they “need better mental health care” etc etc. NO. You need to stop children having access to deadly weapons.

Wrong

The only words they needed were 'suspected shooter'.

They could then have mentioned hair and dress if they needed that contextual detail. But not a lie or a confusing 'trans' description.

But if they’d said transwoman then it would have been a whole lot clearer.

FFS I knew it would be a man. As soon as I heard the female in a dress description on R4 at 7 I thought I bet that's not a woman.

As soon as these troubled kids mention a trans identity, it's like all other mental illness issues are just ignored. Affirm and they'll not need any treatment for their bipolar! Cross sex hormones and don't worry about the OCD!! It is a systemic failure in duty of care.

Yes, but ...
The shooter is dead. The BBC & others are still reporting him as a FEMALE.
The focus should be on the victims but the inaccurate reporting of the shooter is important too in the long run because it skews crime statistics & public perception.

Because he was wearing a dress?

I’m sorry I haven’t RTFT and know you will have all been discussing it, but the fact that the authorities saw fit to issue a real time safety alert saying ‘female in a dress’ has utterly disgusted me. Pure moral bankruptcy. Ideology has no place in basic safety and preservation of life. People needed accurate information with which to help them save their own lives.

Have the BBC actually described him as a woman or female anywhere? I haven't been watching or listening but have just scrolled through their live coverage on the website:

02:41 - An individual
02:50 - a person
03:19 - Police suggest suspect might be a woman ... According to Canadian media, the alert described the suspect as a woman in a dress with brown hair.

And that's the line they've stuck with, while saying the shooter's identity and 'gender' have not yet been disclosed. The description is always in quotes and they always make it clear they are reporting what the police / alert / Canadian media are saying.

The shooter's identity needs to be released urgently because there are already pictures circulating of another man in a dress with a similar name who is apparently not the shooter.

I don't think the BBC can do that, even though they probably know his identity by now, and neither probably can the local reporter. They have to wait for official confirmation. This is on the Canadian authorities.

Remember ‘No gatekeeping’?
When you push for no exceptions to a small and unusual group that can be self identified into you put yourself into the position of having to accept every dysfunctional weirdo who wants to join your club. As part of a general push for acceptance it was a strategically bad move, as you’ll then be judged by the actions of said dysfunctional weirdos.
As is often the case with supposedly progressive ‘kindness’ in this area, the law of unintended consequences gets thrown out of the window, but it’s still got a key to the front door. Back in it comes, riffling through your stuff and making a mess.

100% this. And why is it that the cheerleaders and enablers are seen as kind when actually it would be much kinder to recognise these issues and try to get people the help they need, ideally before they get to the point of causing this level of devastation. My heart goes out to all those affected.

Any fool with eyes can tell the difference between ‘woman in dress’ and ‘long haired man in dress’. Saying it was a woman was bloody dangerous because:
a) they may have seen the perpetrator, and assumed safe as ‘clearly a man albeit trans’
b) an innocent dress wearing brown haired woman (hardly a very unique descriptor) could have been suspected and even shot

Reported that last one but please consider ignoring posts that are obviously out to rile people. Don't give them oxygen