Tumbler Ridge B.C. school shooting: 8 dead, 27 injured | Globalnews.ca
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RCMP said there were "multiple victims" from a shooting at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where students attend Grades 7 through 12.

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.

    • thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world
      310·
      2 days ago

      Morons advocating for gun ownership is how we lose sovereignty.

      Average citizens participating in politics and demanding justice is how we keep sovereignty.

      • tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world
        61·
        2 days ago

        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.

      • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        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

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        32·
        2 days ago

        So good will and vibes keeps Canada sovereign got it. I hope Russia China and America support our vibes.

        • iegod@lemmy.zip
          12·
          2 days ago

          An individual with a firearm isn’t keeping anything sovereign. This is the domain of national diplomacy and state militaries. Keep larping though.

          • tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 day ago

            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:

            It seems that every day we are reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry. That the rules-based order is fading. That the strong do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.

            For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We joined its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.

            We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.

            This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods: open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

            This bargain no longer works.

            Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

            …

            Canadians know that our old, comfortable assumptions that our geography and alliance memberships automatically conferred prosperity and security – that assumption is no longer valid.

            …

            Stop invoking “rules-based international order” as though it still functions as advertised. Call it what it is: a system of intensifying great power rivalry, where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion.

            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.

          • tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world
            31·
            2 days ago

            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?

          • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
            11·
            1 day ago

            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?