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Originally Posted by Traum
I dunno if I should place the blame on the RCMP or the news reporters, but there are 2 issues at hand that is bothering me:
1) Should the RCMP have elaborated more on the outcome of the mental health assessment? For public interest, I think it is meaningful to know whether the suspect has a history of mental health issues. Simply getting an assessment done, esp if it is just a single one, does not indicate one way or another on this front.
2) With the legally registered guns that were seized (from the suspect), was the suspect the registered owner of those guns? My guess is no, he isn't the legal owner, but I think the RCMP should have told the public about that. Or failing that, reporters should have pressed the police to provide this information. It is also not clear to me whether the legal owner's petition to get the guns back was successful or not. I feel like that bit of information should also have been made clear.
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1 - It's only day 2 ... some of the questions you have are pretty particular. And I am guessing, they have to work through what is reportable and what is kept under privacy laws. Much of a person's health history is private. I don't know if once a person commits a crime if that enables the police to release a person's private medical history. How is knowing this meaningful to you?
2 - Again, what does it matter if the person legally owned the guns or stole them to commit this crime? I'm not seeing why that would help the avg curious Joe in Vancouver.
I forget which public figure said it but all that information will eventually come but for today and for the next couple of days at least, let's just grieve or take a moment to remember the families who just lost a child.