I told you people that this lockdown was driving people insane.
A gunman in Canada posing as a police officer has killed 16 people after a 12-hour shooting rampage across Nova Scotia in the worst act of mass murder the country has seen in modern times.
Several bodies were found inside and outside one home in the small, rural town of Portapique, police said, and several homes were set on fire. Bodies were found at other locations and one police officer was also among the dead.
Officials said the gunman, named as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, died after shooting people in several locations across the province. By Sunday night, the death toll had risen to 16, plus the gunman, who died during a standoff with police. Authorities believe he may have targeted the first victims before going on to commit random attacks.
Authorities said Wortman was driving what appeared to be a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) car and was wearing a uniform but later reported he was at the wheel of a Chevrolet SUV that had been modified to resemble a police vehicle – “one that he has basically made himself”, said Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation. Police have said the suspect was not an employee or officer with the RCMP.
RCMP Commanding officer Lee Bergman said on Sunday evening: “Today is a devastating day for Nova Scotia and it will remain etched in the minds of many for years to come.”
The prime minister, Justin Trudeau, speaking to reporters in Ottawa, deplored what he called “a terrible situation”.
Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, which has far tighter gun control laws than the United States.
RCMP Chief Superintendent Chris Leather said: “We believe it to be one person who is responsible for all the killings and that he alone moved across the northern part of the province and committed what appears to be several homicides.”
Sauvé said a police officer was among those killed in a shooting and another was injured.
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The massacre looked to be the worst of its kind since a gunman killed 15 women in Montreal in December 1989. A man driving a van deliberately ran over and killed 10 people in Toronto in April 2018 and a man shot dead six people at an Islamic cultural center in Quebec City in 2017.
Police have not provided a motive for the attack, which reportedly began in the small Atlantic coastal town of Portapique, about 130km north (80 miles) of Halifax, the provincial capital. Online records show Wortman ran a denture clinic in the city of Dartmouth, across the water from Halifax.
Portapique residents said the first they heard about the incident was late on Saturday when police urged everyone to stay indoors.
Officers arrived at a house after receiving multiple emergency calls and found “several casualties” inside and outside the residence.
One local resident said she had come across two burning police vehicles while out driving on Sunday morning. One man said he saw at least three separate fires.
This was certainly a proper rampage.
“There was one officer we could see on scene and then all of a sudden, he went running toward one of the burning vehicles,” Darcy Sack told the CBC. “We heard gunshots,” she said, adding that one police officer looked to have been injured.
This is very sad. The victims are all country people who don’t have anything to do with the weird crap going on in the world.
Let’s all say a prayer for Heather O’Brien and her daughter Darcy.
Heather loved being a nurse and she loved Christmas.
The rest of the victims were also just normal hardy country folk. These mass shootings don’t usually bother me, and my reaction is usually “welp.” But looking at these people and hearing their relatives is hitting me right in the feels.
Someone posted a thing Heather made for Facebook, and my heart broke.
Her daughter wrote a very nice message on Facebook, which might inspire some of you to call your mothers.
Here are some of the other victims.
The only one I don’t feel bad for is the lady cop. I’m not saying she deserved it, but I mean, come on. How many of these bitches have to die before women realize that no, being a cop does not make you strong like a man, it just puts you, everyone you work with and the general public in danger for no good reason.
Every single time I read this “and one officer died,” it is a woman. Just try to begin to imagine a woman in a gun battle. It’s retarded. I blame the Matrix films for this.
This is the first rural mass shooting that I’m aware of.
What even is this story?
A dentist from a small town in Nova Scotia. He built fake police cars. He apparently killed some people he knew or was related to, then went on a rampage across dozens of miles of territory, killing random people and setting their homes and various police cars on fire and it took the cops 12 hours to stop him.
The pictures of the carnage are nuts.
Why was he making fake police cars?
That is a strange hobby.
Someone dug up his high school yearbook photo, where it says he wanted to be a cop. I guess he became a dentist because it makes more money, but still had a thing for cops, so he made these cars. Maybe that isn’t really that strange.
There are a couple of lockdown mania issues here.
Firstly, you have the issue of why a dentist would go on this sort of rampage, and I think there is a lot of room to speculate that this lockdown is actually going to drive people insane. However, we’ve had mass shootings for a long time, so one big one during the lockdown is definitely not a statistic. However, I have predicted that mass shootings will increase dramatically, along with every other form of violent crime.
Notably, people who knew him are saying he was a normal, nice guy.
That is almost never said about mass shooters. They are generally always described as improperly socialized loners. His age is also very strange. So the chance does exist that this was a normal person, maybe with the background of a divorce and having his kids taken, who just cracked under the pressure of coronavirus mania.
The other issue at hand is the way locking down a country and doing all these bizarre measures creates a situation ripe for this type of violence. There is no way that if we were not in this lockdown, this guy would have went for 12 hours and killed 16 people.
Some locals on Facebook told the story of the way the lockdown enabled the shooting better than the media did.
And I dare say, Heather O’Brien’s death matters a whole lot more to me than some fat black guy who drives a bus dying of the flu.
The fallout from this lockdown is not yet calculable. But it will soon begin to be calculable. And those calculations are going to damn the people who forced this nightmare on us.