Shushti Gandav

This kind of thing just doesn't happen here.

I can count kind of on one hand the instances that I recall knowing about, not that have happened necessarily in my lifetime, but certainly this is a rarity and it's something that we, I don't think we're really aware of how to process here.

When we think about the way that our neighbors south of the border view guns, we're quite a bit stricter up here.

Not to say that gun ownership isn't a thing, it isn't a reality, because especially in places like Tumbler Ridge, which is a very rural community, hunting is quite, it's a prominent part of the way of life.

But gun ownership is still strict.

There's licenses for everyone.

you pretty much only are able to own hunting rifles and not the kind of assault-style rifles you often hear about in cases like this in the United States.

So we don't know as of yet what kind of weapon was used, how many weapons were used, anything like that.

But generally speaking, hunting rifles would have been something much more common in that part of the province.

The spark was when my husband got diagnosed with morbid obesity.