Canada School shooting - 4 killed

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Odd - in a way - that no one has mentioned the recent school shooting in Canada which took place yesterday (Friday).


Story highlights

· "The country's heart is breaking," Canadian PM Justin Trudeau says
· Police are investigating another shooting at a residence

(CNN)Police arrested a suspect in a shooting that left four people dead in a small town in northern Saskatchewan, Canadian authorities said.

A call came in Friday afternoon about a shooting at a school in La Loche, said Maureen Levy, chief superintendent of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Officers went to the La Loche Community School, arrested a suspect and seized his weapon, he said. In addition to the school, police are investigating a shooting at a residence in the town of about 2,600 people, Levy said.

"The country's heart is breaking," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said after the shooting.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/americas/canada-saskatchewan-la-loche-school-shooting/
 

Oh? So where's the thread?

Also, since when are people only supposed to fleetingly mention a shooting and talk about it for one day?
 

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You just started it AC. It is a sad thing and must be devastating for that little community. I heard that there are only about 2400 people in La Loche so it must feel real close to home for everyone. They don't even have the luxury of arms length horror.

So far all they've done is identify the four victims (two were the killer's little brothers) and who they've got in custody but no background info other than that community seems to be loosing its teenagers to (gang) violence and suicide. I wonder if this is fall out from many of their adults being the product of the vile residential schools?


This article in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/23/a-list-of-canadian-school-shootings_n_9057060.html identifies the school shootings that we've had in Canada since 1989. The first was when some guy killed 14 young women in a university classroom and the most recent was in 2013 when some guy told the teacher to take 53 children out of the daycare (so they'd be safe?) and then killed another man and then himself.
 
A 17 yr old has been charged.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-charge-17-year-old-in-canada-after-4-shot-dead/

TORONTO -- Police say a 17-year-old has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder in a mass shooting at a school and home in western Canada.

Police said Saturday the male suspect can't be named under Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Grant St. Germaine says nine people were shot in the school, two fatally. He says seven people wounded in Friday's shooting at the school are hospitalized.

Police say two brothers, 17-year-old Dayne Fountaine and 13-year-old Drayden, were shot dead in a home before the gunman headed to the La Loche Community School. Their relationship to the gunman was unclear.

The suspect was arrested outside the school on Friday afternoon.
 
Once upon a time, these isolated northern communities probably got along 'fine (sort of)' all things considered, but maybe the last thirty years has been seeing an uptick in suicides and such because the young people have more access to knowing what other young folks have and are doing in the cities and it's left them with a growing dissatisfaction and loss of hope that they will ever have a life (as they picture other kids having) and that's led to increasing rates of depression?

The internet is a wonderful thing and we all here enjoy it completely and make use of it, but what if it's only providing a window into an unattainable world for those young folks? Then it's not so wonderful I think and would only lead to resentment and anger.
 

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