Active Shooter / Hostile Event ( ASHE ) prevention / response

[Booter]

Unlike our east coast divisions, E Division takes this shit seriously,

 

[brihard]

Looks like the shooter’s online life has been largely identified and dissected. Taking these at face value, there’s an ugly and increasingly familiar picture of a really, really screwed up kid who fell deeper into online nihilistic radicalization.

First, a solid article by the New York Times; I believe this has been gifted, I was able to read it sans paywall: Canada School Shooter’s Online Life Showed Interest in Violent Extremism

Second, a Twitter thread by Becca Spinks, who independently researches and basically hunts down online extremists. She very much knows her shit in this space:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2022099700480954627

 

[The Bread Guy]

Looks like the shooter’s online life has been largely identified and dissected. Taking these at face value, there’s an ugly and increasingly familiar picture of a really, really screwed up kid who fell deeper into online nihilistic radicalization.

First, a solid article by the New York Times; I believe this has been gifted, I was able to read it sans paywall: Canada School Shooter’s Online Life Showed Interest in Violent Extremism

Second, a Twitter thread by Becca Spinks, who independently researches and basically hunts down online extremists. She very much knows her shit in this space:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2022099700480954627

Good catch on both of these. And for anyone who can't get thru to the NY Times piece, here's someplace else to check: https://archive.is/x9LcN

Here's a few more bits of the public record on the shooter's life via The Canadian Press & CTV News:

Documents, social media reveal Tumbler Ridge shooter's lifestyle

A picture of the troubled life of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar is emerging, with a court ruling depicting her family’s “nomadic lifestyle” and a gaming company removing her account, which was used to create a shopping mall massacre simulation. Online platform Roblox said in...

halifax.citynews.ca

Tumbler Ridge shooter’s family led ‘almost nomadic life’ during childhood: judge

The perpetrator of this week’s mass shooting at the high school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., led “an almost nomadic life” as a young child, according to a 2015 B.C. Supreme Court decision in a family law case.

www.ctvnews.ca

Both of those also archived here: CTV News - CP via City News

Sadly (like most of human life, I guess), a complicated-enough stew of factors that will allow the usual suspects of all camps to pick their fave contributing factor, politically meme the shit out of it, and ignore/downplay the whole interplay of more than one issue

 

[daftandbarmy]

Statement from shooter's estranged father:

Father of B.C. mass shooting suspect shares statement

The father of the suspect in this week’s horrific mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has issued a statement on the tragedy.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[Jarnhamar]

Taking these at face value, there’s an ugly and increasingly familiar picture of a really, really screwed up kid who fell deeper into online nihilistic radicalization.

A lesson learned should be that online radicalization is an equal opportunity employer.

Unfortunately our society is in a place where a tragedy like this immediately has many racing to affirm some kind of proof of their views (see, trans kids are dangerous/see, straight white males are violent/ see, immigrants are violent).

The Alberta separation online crew wasted no time in taking this tragedy and trying to capitalize on it.

 

[The Bread Guy]

A lesson learned should be that online radicalization is an equal opportunity employer.

Unfortunately our society is in a place where a tragedy like this immediately has many racing to affirm some kind of proof of their views (see, trans kids are dangerous/see, straight white males are violent/ see, immigrants are violent).

The Alberta separation online crew wasted no time in taking this tragedy and trying to capitalize on it.

With the opposing camp saying “Lookit all the guns,” right? Like I said, just enough to weaponize the issue of choice (no pun intended).