04-19-2020, 05:29 PM
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#21
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I believe in the Jays.
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
I wonder if the stress of owning a business in this crisis cracked him. He may not be the last one who does something like this.
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Weird take.
I would think the vast vast vast majority of business owners will likely have the will power and common sense to NOT go on a murderous rampage. Just my two cents.
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04-19-2020, 07:12 PM
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#22
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Horrible. My mother and all her family are from Nova Scotia. Stories like this do make me worry how many people are hanging by a thread. (I don’t mean Covid-19 related just in general)
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04-19-2020, 07:29 PM
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#23
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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When I woke up this morning and saw this, first thing I did was message my buddy from Economy. He's safe and well.
Then I just didn't really process it. It is like watching a movie. Too surreal to be true.
My wife has a colleague who apparently lost her sister in this situation. My wife's been shaken all day.
Still, I didn't process it as real.
Not until this moment. I just saw another close friend ask a friend of theirs (that I don't know) if they're ok on Facebook and to reach out to someone.
I then went to the person's Facebook page.
Their road is closed by the RCMP. No one has heard a thing from them or their family.
Again, I don't know them. But reading the worry has triggered flashbacks to when one of my best friends from univeristy put their suicide note on Facebook.
The worry, the unknown, and yet the knowing... wishing beyond hope that you're wrong.
Knowing how shaken my wife is, I'm not mentioning this to her. Hence... here. It's more anonymous while still venting.
F***
This isn't supposed to happen here.
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04-19-2020, 07:51 PM
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I'll get you next time Gadget!
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A woman in SE Calgary has been posting on Nova Scotian FB groups all day looking for info about her sister, brother in law and niece who lived in Portapique.
She just updated a post to say that all three were found dead in their home.
Another man in Oshawa had shared a post looking for his parents and now has confirmed that their home was burned down and they are gone.
One of the victims was an elementary school teacher in Debert. Heartbreaking tributes coming out from her young students.
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04-19-2020, 08:15 PM
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Franchise Player
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Terrible to hear... i heard a little earlier, but didn't think the count would be this high...
hard to put into words how badly i feel for the families and angry i am at the shooter.
This should not happen here... but any time you have any kind of guns, you have the possibility to have a mass shooting, even with Canada's gun control laws.
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04-19-2020, 08:40 PM
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#26
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by direwolf
Man, just when you think things couldn't get more depressing right now,
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Do you actually? Things can always get worse.
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Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under
Weird take.
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Is it? I feel like there's a lot of people on a metaphorical ledge right now that under normal circumstances would not take a leap.
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04-19-2020, 08:43 PM
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Norm!
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Tragic and tremendously sad, think about the victims tonight. I was joking with a friend a few days ago that with all of the social isolating and people being stuck in their homes that there were going to be some serious issues at some point, combine that with a crashing economy, millions of people out of work and I'm not sadly shocked that something like this happened.
This is tremendously sad, and tremendously concerning. I don't know what else there is to say.
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04-19-2020, 08:59 PM
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#28
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under
Weird take.
I would think the vast vast vast majority of business owners will likely have the will power and common sense to NOT go on a murderous rampage. Just my two cents.
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It’s obviously not going to be the norm...
But there are lots of people out there with significant underlying psychological issues that could be triggered to new lengths once you add major stressors to their lives.
Losing social connections though isolation, job loss, business loss, marriage issues, friends dying from covid, etc
This is a unique situation happen in the world and there are going to be some periphery effects on society that although not direct, will happen the longer this goes on.
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04-19-2020, 09:17 PM
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#29
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Crazy to think that with the pandemic going on, we have the worst mass shooting incident in Canadian history. Will be interesting to see how he was able to wreak so much havoc over a long period without any sort of intervention.
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04-19-2020, 09:36 PM
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#30
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by jar_e
Crazy to think that with the pandemic going on, we have the worst mass shooting incident in Canadian history. Will be interesting to see how he was able to wreak so much havoc over a long period without any sort of intervention.
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I'd hardly call that insane manhunt, chase, & shootouts over that long period of time "without any intervention".
This is a guy who know exactly how & when the RCMP would react and countered it at every turn. Knew exactly how to confuse, exploit, and escape their tactics.
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04-19-2020, 11:56 PM
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Ducay
This is a guy who know exactly how & when the RCMP would react and countered it at every turn. Knew exactly how to confuse, exploit, and escape their tactics.
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From what sources did you get this info? I haven’t seen this info in the news I’ve read.
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04-20-2020, 01:03 AM
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#32
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by wwkayaker
From what sources did you get this info? I haven’t seen this info in the news I’ve read.
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Since high school, Gabriel Wortman, a denturist with multiple Nova Scotia clinics, had shown an obsession for policing, buying law-enforcement memorabilia and boasting about his hobby of refurbishing old police cruisers.
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...obsession-for/
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04-20-2020, 01:06 AM
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Norm!
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I don't think that its much of a reach in that this shooting happened on the 25th anniversary of the Oklamhoma City Bombings.
That the killer was described as a fan of the police, and had bought two old cruisers and used one of them while dressing in at least part of a RCMP uniform. I think he'd been planning this for some time, it doesn't feel like a random he just snapped occurrence. Like the 2011 Norway attack he dressed like a cop.
He played his role well, his neighbors described him as a kind generous friendly neighbor who worked at a Dental lab iirc. Nobody saw this coming.
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04-20-2020, 04:59 AM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Ducay
I'd hardly call that insane manhunt, chase, & shootouts over that long period of time "without any intervention".
This is a guy who know exactly how & when the RCMP would react and countered it at every turn. Knew exactly how to confuse, exploit, and escape their tactics.
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I was referring more to the point that he was able to murder the majority of his victims before any interaction happened with the RCMP by reports. It seems the vast majority of damage was done before the pursuit, shootouts, etc. The fact that RCMP are continuing to do searches for victims and the number of dead keeps on rising showed that this guy was able to commit a ton of crime without anyone noticing, including the public.
I get rural policing is a unique circumstance and there’s a whole set of factors at play. I think the only thing he was able to exploit is a small cop to population ratio and stretched them incredibly thin with the little resources they had available. Also the fact that other useful resources were hours away.
It’ll be interesting to see a full timeline come out in the future.
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04-20-2020, 07:04 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Just catching up on what happened with this now. Horrific. What a messed up situation. Just tragic. Is there news yet on where this guy got his weapon, or the motives?
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04-20-2020, 07:51 AM
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Franchise Player
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Horrible. Absolutely horrible.
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04-20-2020, 07:57 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SW Ontario
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ooof.. .bad times. From the articles it sounds like he had a plan for some of it and then starting killing random people. Brutal.
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04-20-2020, 08:17 AM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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04-20-2020, 08:21 AM
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#39
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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CTV News
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UPDATED: Death toll hits 19 in Canada's worst mass shooting
At least two of the victims were correction officers. One was an elementary teacher.
This thing is looking to have a very sordid and complicated story behind it.
Ugh.
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04-20-2020, 09:13 AM
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#40
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I believe in the Jays.
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kitsilano
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Absolutely horrible.
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