Authorities choose pronouns over truth after trans gunman kills nine
Emergency alerts and police reports prioritize political correctness over clear communication, leaving the public confused and outraged.
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Article by Rebel News staff
An 18-year-old transgender gunman opened fire, killing nine, including family members, wounding more than two dozen others, and leaving a young child in critical condition. The attacker ultimately took his own life. It is a horrific crime, one that will leave permanent scars on a small community.
But alongside the sorrow, another controversy has erupted. Not about the scale of the violence, but about the language authorities used to describe the killer.
Police identified the suspect as female. Emergency alerts warned residents to watch for a "female." Officers corrected reporters who used male pronouns. Some media outlets followed suit, describing the shooter as an 18-year-old female, despite the suspect having been born male.
At first, the suspect was a "female in a dress," and used the bizarre word, "gunperson."
The murderer is actually a male-to-female transgender, named Jesse Van Rootselaar, who more recently went by Jesse Strang. He started to transition six years ago, when he was just 12. He’s well known in town as an abusive young man and police say they visited him multiple times.
For many watching, that linguistic insistence became a flashpoint.
The issue isn’t compassion. It isn’t about how individuals choose to live their lives. It’s about clarity in a moment of crisis. When emergency alerts are issued during an active shooting, precision matters. People rely on those details to make split-second decisions. If the public believes authorities are obscuring basic facts, even in terminology, trust erodes.
And trust is everything during an emergency.
There are also troubling reports that police had previous interactions with the attacker. Officers were allegedly called to the home multiple times over the years. That raises difficult but necessary questions: Were warning signs missed? Were interventions attempted? Could anything have prevented this?
Those are fair questions in any mass casualty event. They are not hateful. They are not extreme. They are part of accountability.
GUEST: Independent columnist Amy Hamm joins the show to speak about the tragic mass shooting.
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Fran g commented 2026-02-12 17:49:59 -0500crocodile tears, when you are soulless like carnage that is all he has. OK when the police were called to his home many times and being a small town where everybody knows everybodys stuff why didnt the police check the home out and take away them firearms? If that couldnt be done legally why didnt other relatives or friends go and take the guns away for the sake of that poor family. Did they legally have them guns and if they did where is the vetting to prevent that? The answer to them questions are the massive brainwashing forced onto Canadians by the trudumb and carnage govt, MSM and stupid lefties. We have to start speaking up about this in public and not be silenced by name calling. Polieuve come out swinging and make this subject your main item and you will win. -
susan gerbes commented 2026-02-12 13:27:33 -0500a question for all….why was Carnage so emotional on national news? votes?
and I would certainly be wary of a mother who posts her fb picture with eye makeup resembling the devil….she has a mental illness as well. When are we going to stop the charades…..? -
Marilyn Hagerman commented 2026-02-12 13:08:17 -0500Your truthfully articulated paragraph below Tim…..if only all Canadians could know the truth!!
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Don Hrehirchek commented 2026-02-12 11:17:41 -0500All comments thus far all have truth worded in them . Now to show and explain to the deceived the net works of evil.
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chris macdonald commented 2026-02-12 10:05:21 -0500There’s a proverb in the bible says “the scrupulous man is an undecided man”.
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Tim commented 2026-02-12 00:57:40 -0500This reminds me of Carney’s highly praised anti-American speech at Davos, the parable of the shopkeeper under communist bondage, each morning he hangs the regimes approved slogan in his window, knowing it’s false, a lie, but refusing to do so invites harassment, lost privileges, or worse. Until one day he finally musters the courage to stop “pretending”. What a hypocrite Carney, your parable applies to the trans/alphabet people/gender dysphoria nonsense we are supposed to affirm as truth or be chastised into submission by your regime. Sadly, the RCMP, CBC and their type will never have the courage to stop pretending.
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Roman Kierzek commented 2026-02-12 00:12:36 -0500Gunperson eh. If this wasn’t a horrible event it would have been a comedy. Quit with this fantasy of being a trans and forcing the public to accept this insanity. Expect more killings and suicides. -
Tim Kelley commented 2026-02-11 23:57:44 -0500these woke politicians are mentally deranged psychotic psychopaths, that are completely unhinged from reality
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Paul Scofield commented 2026-02-11 21:51:55 -0500There is no such thing as a “trans” person, other than the classic definition of a man who wears women’s clothes, i.e., a transvestite. Pardon my swear, but the rest is just progressive/liberal bullshit. I do acknowledge the possibility of someone being gender dysphoric but the number of people truly such afflicted is < 1 percent. Mr. Rootselaar was about as much a woman as the sky is red. At least Canadians are spared the expense of housing this would-have-been-made-into-a-poor-enduring victim for the next seventy years. Damnatio memoriae.
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Denyse O'Leary commented 2026-02-11 21:41:13 -0500Ezra, face facts. It’s about the fact that in Canada now, pronouns matter far more than people. And the only important question is, what are we going to do about that? -
Bruce Atchison commented 2026-02-11 21:40:33 -0500Trans mania will continue until we get rid of the enablers of this insanity. Jessie Strang is a symptom of wokeness pushers who insist we affirm mental illness instead of treating it. And in my experience, some kinds of mental illness can be cured by a check up from the neck up. A spanking or three would have helped young Jessie too. Time-outs don’t hurt like the board of education applied to the seat of knowledge does.
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Marilyn Hagerman commented 2026-02-11 21:39:55 -0500Renowned Canadian psychologist, Jordan Peterson, has very clearly outlined that transgenderism is a mental illness which desperately needs psychiatric help and support…..NOT puberty blockers and horrific mutilation of physical body parts! For many, if left untreated, it escalates to self destruction and suicide, or turns hostile toward others! The killer of Charlie Kirk, a number of murders of parents, the car driver that killed celebrating Filipino folks in BC are just a very few examples! Our country is intentionally being ripped apart by Carney on a daily basis! MSM promote all as being positive and glorious under this massively corrupt Liberal Carney government, and so have convinced many Canadians that Carney walks on water!! They are totally complicit in turning Canada into a communist society run by Beijing! This entire Carney driven Marxist “woke” ideology that is Canada’s latest “fad” is a WEF mechanism designed to deplete a population of productive healthy and intelligent young people! It’s one of the mechanisms in their playbook for acquiring a one world government run by global elites like Carney and under their complete control! Think back to the “COVID controls” Trudeau exercised on everyone – all of which we now know were directed by the WEF and the communist controlled WHO!! People need to start doing some HONEST research and investigation. It’s out there! Or, like Hitler convinced lazy Germans the Holocaust was cool and OK, Canadians will very soon wonder how they lost all freedoms and now are under Carney led communist control with Beijing.
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Crude Sausage commented 2026-02-11 21:18:10 -0500It is time to stop accepting this transsexual crap as normal. In fact, we’ve surrendered too much to the left already; all their ideas have been shown to be complete crap.
