From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Rhino  wrote:   
   >On 2026-02-11 7:53 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>BTR1701  wrote:   
   >>>On Feb 11, 2026 at 3:06:33 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
      
   >>>>Police identified Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18 years old, as the prime   
   >>>>suspect in the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, mass murder. "Assigned   
   >>>>male at birth," she began transitioning to female six years ago. She   
   >>>>killed herself at the main crime scene.   
      
   >>>The media is describing the killer as "the gunperson" now, since they don't   
   >>>want to misgender the killer and be rude to him or anything.   
      
   >>We're not allowed to say perpetrator if we are so terribly concerned   
   >>about misuse of gendered words? How about killer?   
      
   >I thought the standard term these days was "shooter" which doesn't seem   
   >to offend anybody.   
      
   Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed and Joel Souza was shot by the gun   
   held by Alec Baldwin acting of its own volition. To this day, Alec   
   Baldwn denies pulling the trigger.   
      
   In accidental, negligent, reckless, and intentional shootings, the act   
   of shooting was committed by the gun and is never the responsibility of   
   the human being whose finger was on the trigger.   
      
   The term is quite offensive indeed.   
      
   I saw an article from the Daily Mail reviewing social media criticism of   
   how seemingly concerned the RCMP has been about the, er, gunperson's   
   pronouns, with little or no empathy for victims who were generally   
   children. Even the murdered stepbrother, at the initial crime scene, was   
   11 years old. I thought that the entire point of a homicide   
   investigation is that police, forensic pathologists, and prosecutors are   
   there to speak for the dead as they are no longer able to speak for   
   themselves. In this case, the police are speaking for the murderer.   
      
   Seriously, I'm going to disagree with BTR1701 a little bit. I used the   
   damn pronoun to emphasize that the "help" the perpetrator received   
   consisted of male to female transistioning, entirely ignoring serious   
   underlying issues. While pre-crime ain't predictable, it damn well   
   appears that these issues were both well known and left unaddressed, and   
   that the transitioning combined with failure to address underlying   
   issues made everything worse. This was someone with known violent   
   tendancies.   
      
   And I'd really like to know where the guns came from. Did the family   
   just keep them at home despite knowing what "she" was like?   
      
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