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.
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…
It was impossible to garden until we put up a skookum fence, and with only a few occasional predators (gulf islands) the deer are shrinking in size yet browse in greater numbers. The forests are out of balance because they are overbrowsed.
Not much hunting locally due to restrictions, I think it was only shotgun slug and bow a few years back, and there’s not much crown land around, so we have a bad deer problem.
We pulled one part of the ecology out, predation, and people object to replacing it or any fix. It’s going to make wildfires worse and reduces biodiversity.
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.
Wisely selective hunting in the absence of adequate predation can be important for an ecosystem, it’s old wisdom. (Not that that is how hunting regulation works in Canada of course.)
But in an interdependent origination view of living in a web, hunting like that is not totally different from how we manage plants that evolved with herbivorous megafauna. Those megafauna are extinct, so now part of the web is broken. So people coppice willows, and they live three times longer and are more resistant to disease. Pruning by teeth is what many deciduous trees and shrubs evolved for, so we have to fill the gap to get a really healthy orchard.