Tumbler Ridge is in the next province to us and is about close to a 1000 kms from Calgary, give and take about an 11 hour drive. It's in the B C boonies and was built around the future coal industry but the 'greens' aided by Mr Suzuki got it closed down and it became a ghost town, and at one time the asking price for a house to sell was a top price of $10,000.It was rumored that people desperate to leave would sell for a 1.000 $.
Rita we do have for to some, to restrictive gun laws, but with compliance to the existing firearms act and especially in that area where hunting is probably the only 'sport' most homes would have weapons of some sort, it is very difficult to 'legally' own a hand gun or an automatic rifle.
Makes you wonder if Peters sword was 'legal' in his day

But with mans ingenuity for modification, legal guns can be made into illegal. And when registering your weapons came in, many did not comply but held on to their hunting guns, as the Ruby Ridge fiasco in Idaho cemented their reasoning. The 'official' report I think was made with the Auto Pen !!!!!!!! methinks.
I am 'old school' on the gender thing and at four years old I never had a voice on things but I did know I was protestant and a male, my dad told me we were protestants and Mr Atkins was a Catholic as he had fathered 16 kids. Gender not a subject to address around my youngest daughter or my grand children who aren't children any more.
What a roller coaster of emotions there must be, as a Pastor there, how to explain the situation redemptively will take a special anointing.
Hopefully the 'finger' of blame does not wag and a healing can take place.
As you said Rita, so sad.