Don't worry! This person (suffering from the healthcare system) will surely be put in cage for the usual torture.
But the people who design the cars and streets will continue to profit.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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This person (suffering from the healthcare system) will surely be put in cage for the usual torture.
Canadian here, not even that is a given. There's a significant chance they get a slap on the wrist. For murder. It's happened before especially for murders involving cars as the weapon.
I love our justice system /s
"SUV rams into street festival"
Another case of a posessed vehicle killing people. No responsibility on the part of the driver.
It's like the were-car from futurama!
I hate cars as much as the next person here, but we know next to nothing about this person other than a single sentence statement from the police. And also charges haven't been laid yet because the investigation is still ongoing and likely hasn't been sent to the crown counsel yet.
Another victim of the "healthcare" system.
Lo did not have previous criminal charges against him, but a troubled family history. His brother was murdered last year, and Lo condemned the “senseless act of violence” when he launched a GoFundMe donation campaign...
A few months later, in August, he reportedly again asked for donations, this time for his mother who had attempted suicide and needed hospitalization for a month.
A relative of Lo had contacted a local hospital’s psychiatric ward barely hours before the attack because of his worsening mental health, Vancouver Sun reported.
I'm unclear on why only 8 murders when 11 were killed, but I imagine there's some legal stuff going on there.
What happened is fucked up and very likely could've been prevented if we had better mental health supports in BC.
This is obviously a really sad and fucked up situation but I feel like this post is unnecessarily inflammatory.
police are describing as a car-ramming attack
Call it what it is please.
Terrorism.
Terrorism implies some kind of political motivation. They've already ruled that out.
how?
You'll have to ask them.
By ignoring how car dependency and the "healthcare" system caused this.
The murderer was not the race you seem to be assuming by this post btw.
No name was mentioned in the article. The driver being cleared of "terorrism" this quickly almost always means one thing.
A quick Google search will pull up names and pictures. The dude is Asian, and I think potentially Filipino himself.
Wait so the meme is still right.
They went "Not Arab, not Black = mentally disturbed"
They are saying that attacker has mental health issues. He may not hate Philippinos specifically, but hating people in general is apparently not terrorism.
Cars are weapons and should be regulated as such.
So you’re advocating a regression to 19th century mental asylums? Discarding humans as “hopeless” cases with no attempt to reintegration? That’s a bit sick.
No. Just that where gun licensing/purchase criteria apply to cars and/or SUVs.
Wow. So, basically anyone with any kind of criminal record would be prohibited from getting a driver's license? I'm pretty sure that would require at least a few human rights violations.
There's no "human right to drive". It's why you need to get a license in the first place.
@ChairmanMeow @Archangel1313 There are already lots of things that keep people from getting driver's licenses, from disabilities they have no control over like visual impairment or epilepsy to relatively minor and not directly safety-related civil matters like failure to pay child support or overdue court fees. A reasonable society would do a lot more to protect innocent lives from having people drive when they've demonstrated they can't do so safely regardless of the reason.
There is the basic human right that says once a person has served their time for a crime, they should be allowed to reintegrate back into society again. That means restoring their ability to access basic services that everyone else relies on....including a driver's license. Or do you think they should be penalized permanently?
Well that's A) not a basic human right (though I generally agree with it) but mostly B) a drivers license is not available to everyone. There are plenty of crimes that can see you get your license revoked entirely, potentially permanently.
If you've exhibited clear mental volatility, a tendency for mass violence or straight-up potential for terrorist activities, why should society trust you with a car? Perhaps experts should first determine the risk of you driving before allowing you to obtain a license.
Being allowed to drive is a privilege, not a right. It's fine to extend that privilege to those who are deemed fit to have it, so then it should also be fine to deny it to those who are deemed a danger.
Contrary to what car makers would like you believe the right to drive is not a basic human right. In fact if anything designing a society solely for cars is what ignores the rights of many who naturally can't drive (e.g. for health reasons).
Except that being able to drive is often required to obtain, as well as hold down a job. So, it's not a matter of the license being a human right, it's what taking away someone's license would do to their ability to survive.
Only in countries that are extremely car-centric. You don't even realize how much your perception is warped by your country's dysfunction in this regard.
@Archangel1313 @humanspiral Honestly, I am sorry in your country driving is a presequisite of living, but driving an SUV is very much not a human right
In a better world, yes. In this world, capitalism won the fight for well-designed cities so now we are in a bind where people that shouldn't drive "have" to be able to, and a driver's license is just a suggestion. Cheap cars are abundant and easily available so unless a person is in jail, they can't practically be prevented from driving.
Whatever sensible conditions to prevent people from owning firearms, should apply to even more deadly weapon. They should still be able to have access to a motorcycle, or the vehicle class that is Citroen Ami, which is a 25mph maximum speed car classified as somewhat close to a bicycle. License still needed, but 14 year olds can access.
Where are these diving licenses for cars? I know a few vehicles I'd like to throw in a lake.
Also, what's a violently mentally ill doing driving? Someone take the keys away from the DSM
You just learned that today? How long have you been living under a rock?