It's not rocket science

....and it's not psychological mumbo-jumbo.  The man who murdered 12 people and left another 17 injured was dead drunk and high on drugs.  Plain and simple.  

He was also a violent criminal, but since it has to do with natives, naturally it has to be analyzed to death and attributed to some other emotional and mental gymnastics to explain away this unspeakable tragedy.  The "why" is simply that Miles and Damien Sanderson were pathologically inebriated and impaired when they decided to go on a deliberate rampage to kill and maim as many people as they could find.  Myles' brother, Damien, was the first victim.

This all took place last year on the James Smith Cree Nation.  According to witnesses, the brothers -- also cocaine dealers -- were still "guzzling booze" at 4:45 in the morning and "pumping themselves up" for what they were planning.  If you're still drinking at that hour of the morning, you're very, very drunk.  You are not in control of your faculties, you're delusional and you're ready to do anything that pops into your drunken cranium.

The RCMP said a psychological autopsy is being done on Myles "to better understand his actions".  What's to understand?  The guy was drunk.  When he was finally tracked down and arrested three days after the attacks, he apparently went into "medical distress" and died shortly after being taken into custody.  Well, of course he did.  "Medical distress" would have been caused by the fact that he had probably continued drinking and drugging long after he had run out of knives to kill people.  

The "medical distress" was initially challenged by his family, who implied that the RCMP had killed him.  Ya, right.  The guy who murdered 12 people was the victim here, folks.  Naturally, the blinkered, half-Polish...

...Tanya Talaga blames it all on colonialism, dismissing Sanderson’s addictions and violent behaviour and instead points the finger at everyone else.  

It was “the social fallout of residential schools and racist policies such as the Indian Act” that explained the tragedy, she wrote. “It is time for Canada to take responsibility” for the problems faced by aboriginal communities, particularly breaking up native families via the prison system, Talaga ludicrously added.  In other words, we’re all to blame.  Talaga is a disgrace to objective journalism and should not be published anywhere.

Prior to his killing spree, Sanderson had been charged with 125 crimes. 125!!  Among these charges were two attempted murders and 18 assaults.  Many of the assault charges (including in 2011, 2012 and 2013) were for domestic violence against Vanessa Burns, the mother of four of his six children.  He also targeted her immediate family for abuse.  But he was sentenced under Indigenous guidelines, which are much reduced because of "colonialism".  How'd that work out?  Exactly.  Google the stats to see how aboriginal crimes have declined since they introduced "healing circles" and elder "mentorship" programs.  They haven't. 

In 2015 he stabbed Vanessa’s parents Earl and Joyce Burns and was sentenced to two years in provincial custody.  In 2017 he entered Vanessa’s house in a violent rage and punched a hole in the bathroom door while two of his own children hid in the bathtub. 

A few days later he got into a fight at a store on the reserve and threatened to kill the employee.  That same year he savagely beat an accomplice to force him into helping rob a Subway restaurant in Melton; they got away with $150.  In 2018 he stabbed two men with a fork and savagely beat another man, leaving him unconscious in a ditch.  The list of violent acts goes on and on.

But never mind, Sanderson was a "victim".  It's an outrage.