Mentally Stable People Don’t Commit Mass Shootings

And newsflash, the number of “women” shooters has not increased

Jesse Van Rootselaar before he was supported to be a “gender” he could never be.

The world is once again plunged into sorrow at the mass shooting of innocent children and their teachers living in North America. For once it wasn’t in the United States (where elementary school children now are required to participate in active shooter drills, which I suspect are not as mundane as the fire drills of my childhood), but in neighboring Canada, where transgenderism is so embedded in every single aspect of life it is unavoidable and leads to some strange turns of phrase such as, “a person in a dress with brown hair” as a way of identifying an 18 year old man who deliberately murdered teachers and students at his old high school before turning his gun on himself.

The second I heard that clunky phrasing “a person in a dress with brown hair”, I knew that they were talking about a man living in womanface. By the time it was all over the news, this “person” had graduated to the use of female pronouns she/her despite the fact that the police and the media all knew that “she” was in fact a “he”.

According to reports, Jesse Van Rootselaar was a former student at the high school where he had his killing spree although he had reportedly dropped out of school four years earlier; whether he had any form of education after leaving school is unclear. He had begun his “transition” by then too, but that his mother was a staunch Trans Rights Activist didn’t save her from being murdered by her son; additionally, his 10-year-old stepbrother was not spared either.

He had an extensive mental health history, which included being prescribed:

psychiatric medications, including Zoloft, and in another post claimed to have been diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, major depressive disorder and autism spectrum disorder.

“I am on Sertraline 280mg (SSRI) I on rare occasion take 2mg of Risperidone for sleep purposes (Anti-Psychotic) I also smoke a decent bit of weed,” he wrote, noting he previously had a “complete mental break” while taking a moderate dose of magic mushrooms.

In a post from October 2023, he asks whether it’s safe for him to continue to experiment with psychedelics after claiming to have “burnt my house down my second time trying shrooms.”

Police had been called to the family residence on multiple occasions over the past few years to deal with concerns pertaining to his mental health issues, which had seen Van Rootselaar apprehended under the provincial Mental Health Act for an assessment on more than one occasion.

In a custody case in 2015:

A judge said Van Rootselaar’s mother Jennifer Strang had taken her children around the country, causing them to lead “an almost nomadic life” in a 2015 court case which revealed her former partner had successfully got her ordered not to remove the children from British Columbia.

“These children have led an almost nomadic life, from what I have been told, with multiple moves over the last five years between Newfoundland, Grand Cache and Powell River.”

“It can hardly be the case that the children are tied in any meaningful sense to that one location,” Justice Anthony Saunder wrote, ordering Strang to give her children phone access to their father.

He also had a valid firearms licence until it expired in 2024. In Canada, minors between 12 and 17 can obtain a legal permit to use guns as long as certain conditions are met.

So here we have the perfect trifecta of adverse childhood experiences, severe, long term mental health issues and a love of guns. Yet the police are “searching for a motive” for reasons that escape me. Since when do people who live in their own self-constructed worlds need a reason for the bizarre choices they make?

What could possibly go wrong?

When you combine long standing mental instability, a general dissatisfaction with life itself and easy gun access, along with a side helping of narcissism, it strikes me as inevitable that someone’s gonna die.

Robert Westman, who restyled himself as a female “Robin” Westman, also had a supportive mother to console his confused feelings about himself.

Robert/Robin Westman

Like other people who go on to commit mass murders, Westman left behind a journal that plotted his confusion about his life. According to this article in the New York Times:

Ms. Westman’s notebooks were full of chaotic and disturbing ideas, often mixed with self-hatred. Given the sheer volume of her writing, she wrote relatively little about being transgender or about trans rights, while often going on long hate-filled rants about other aspects of her life.

“I don’t know if I am a trans girl,” she wrote in June. “It is undeniable that I like how I look in girl clothes. I like thinking about being a girl.”

Ms. Westman, 23, also alluded to the distress that many trans people have said they experience: “My face never matches how I feel,” she wrote.

But some conservative commentators have focused on one line: “I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brainwashed myself.”

Chloe Cole, a conservative activist who returned to her female identity after living as a transgender teenager, suggested that such violence could be an outcome of social support for people who identify as transgender. Society is “lying to them, and telling them they were born wrong, yet we expect them to turn out normal?” she posted on the day of the attack.

Westman carried out a meticulously detailed shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis after harboring fantasies for years about doing what he did. He wrote in his journal:

I have a loving family and a good support system of people that want to see me thrive, for some reason, the fact that I have a pretty good life and the fact that I want kill people have never correlated to me.

Every school I went to, I have some fantasy at some point or another of shooting up my school, even every job.

Audrey Hale, the lone woman mass shooter who believed she was really a man

Audrey (Adrian) Hale was 28 when in 2023 she paid a visit to one of her former schools and shot dead three nine-year-old students and three teachers. I wrote about her in this post, pointing out the inconsistencies which effectively amount to a cover-up in reporting trans crimes:

The Effects of Testosterone on the Female Brain

A summary of the news outlets that did not bother to report Audrey’s trans identity can be found on the Glinner Update (A Week in the War on Women: Monday 2nd September - Sunday 8th September). Isn’t it funny how the press can report inaccurately on the sex of someone when it suits them? All those men claiming to be women will be referred to as “she” (it’s even “her penis” in court reports), but this young woman is not called Aiden (her chosen male name) or by her chosen he/him pronouns once in any news report.

I guess the press was so happy that for once it wasn’t male violence they were reporting that “deadnaming” Audrey/Adrian sort of slipped their notice.

That’s not all of them, but they all tell the same story

I am sick of reading that those who adopt the transgendered life are in no way mentally unstable, unwell or suffering any sort of mental health condition. According to this Delusional Disorder Continuing Education Activity:

Delusional thinking involves firm, unshakable beliefs in things that are untrue, irrational, or impossible, persisting despite clear evidence to the contrary. Common examples include believing one is being spied on (persecutory), possessed of special powers (grandiose), loved by a celebrity (erotomanic), or suffering from an imagined disease (somatic).

You cannot be a sex you weren’t born to and no combination of medical procedures or treatments can achieve this for anyone. “Sex change operations” used to be a thing, but you won’t hear much about those because the kinder, gentler alternative moniker of “gender affirming care” is now cemented firmly into place. Feeling as if you were “born in the wrong body” appears to be exactly what “suffering from an imagined disease” consists of.

This is a forever performative life that only works if everyone goes along with the fantasy that has become a disordered reality for those who live in the Church of Trans as I wrote about here:

Stories We Tell Ourselves

It should be apparent by now that unconditional “affirmation” does not help anyone to come to terms with their embodied reality. Pretending that the world can be fashioned just as one might like it to be does not lead to greater satisfaction, but to a permanent state of hopelessness:

For some individuals, a fragile or fractured sense of self—often shaped by a felt conflict between biological sex and gender identity, and reinforced by narratives of constant threat or victimhood—may intensify alienation, urgency, and emotional volatility. When a person’s identity becomes detached from embodied reality, personal history, and stable relationships, it can drift toward nihilism: the belief that life itself has no inherent meaning or value. In that state, ideology can rush in to fill the void. For a small but notable subset of radicalized individuals, the combination of identity instability, existential fear, and moral absolutism can make violence feel not only permissible, but purposeful.

These three people are also victims. Believing in an ideology that ignores real problems in favor of a cultish religiosity that promises an undeliverable “happy ending” is always going to end in tragedy. Those that push children, teens and young adults onto the path of transgenderism as a simple solution to complex situations are as culpable as those who pull the triggers.