Laura Fletcher on RTE News last Thursday declared as “fact” a scientific miracle that has never occurred in the history of the human race, could never occur, and so never will: She stated that Jesse Van Rootselaar, the mass shooter in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia who murdered seven people, was a woman. Fletcher said of Van Rootselaar that “she was a student” and that “she took her own life”.
The Tumbler Ridge killer was a man whose deeds very much fell within a pattern of aberrant male behavior. To be sure, Fletcher was not alone in her weird hallucinations. Tumbler Ridge’s police chief said of Van Rootselaar that “she” had a licence that expired in 2024 and “she” did not have any firearms registered. RTE had already compounded the confusion by declaring that the massacre would once again raise the question of gun-control laws. Yawn. Lazee. Canada’s gunlaws are savage compared to those of the US, and handguns are effectively illegal there, but what matter truth when the issue is RTE’s precious liberal orthodoxies such as gun-control?
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