BS: Anyone Here from Ottawa?

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone Here from Ottawa?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Oct 14 - 01:05 AM

Here's a link to the Reuters story and an excerpt:

(Reuters) - A gunman attacked Canada's parliament on Wednesday, with gunfire erupting near where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was speaking, and a soldier was fatally shot at a nearby war memorial, stunning the Canadian capital.

The gunman in the parliament building was shot dead, and Harper was safely removed in incidents that may have been linked to Islamic militants.

Witness accounts indicated the man who shot dead the soldier guarding the National War Memorial in central Ottawa, went on to attack the parliament building minutes later. Canadian police said however they could not "at this point" confirm it was the same person.

The shootings followed an attack on two soldiers in Quebec on Monday carried out by a convert to Islam. Two U.S. officials said U.S. agencies had been advised the dead gunman in Wednesday's shootings was also a Canadian convert to Islam.

Witnesses said a flurry of shots were fired after a gunman entered the parliament building, pursued by police.

The assault took place very near the room where Harper was meeting with members of his Conservative party, a government minister said.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone Here from Ottawa?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 23 Oct 14 - 12:49 AM

Kevin Vickers has 30 years with law enforcement. If reports are accurate, this is the first time he's fired a weapon in the performance of his duties. Good guy to have around when it hits the fan.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone Here from Ottawa?
From: meself
Date: 23 Oct 14 - 12:16 AM

I don't live there, although I have a brother there, some relatives and no doubt some friends I've lost touch with ....

Anything I could say (about the cold-blooded murder of a reservist and a one-man attack on the Parliament Building) would be just a statement of the obvious, or a sputtering declamation of how different things would be if I ran the country.

Having said that, I do, in this instance, actually have some faith in our authorities to follow this up with practical, sensible measures to deal with the threat of Islamist lunatics, without getting carried away.

The one pleasant surprise that came out of this was that it was Parliament's "Sergeant-at-Arms", Kevin Vickers, who shot and killed the attacker. Most of us, I'm sure, regarded his as merely a ceremonial role: a suitably grave fellow heading for the end of his working life, required to dress up like a 'town-crier', and strut along with the golden mace over his shoulder at the opening of Parliament .... Turns out he's not a man to trifle with ....

Subject: BS: Anyone Here from Ottawa?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Oct 14 - 09:15 PM

There is such a thing as being too tight-lipped, you know.