The suspect in a Canada school shooting was an 18-year-old who had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health, authorities said Wednesday, a day after the attack that killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia.
Police said Jesse Van Rootselaar was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound following the assault on a school in the small mountain community of Tumbler Ridge.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said Van Rootselaar first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home before attacking the nearby school. She had a history of mental health contacts with police, he said.
I was talking about overall gun violence in the US, but you’re talking about how it’s “perceived differently”, presumably if you’re in a suburb or something. It’s kind of a non sequitur.
Random acts of violence like the one in the article are different than disagreements that turn violent. They have different causes and different solutions. They are perceived differently because they are different things. I feel like mentioning the suburbs is a bit of a non sequitur.