Shooting at Canadian parliament

Oh my.  Thank you for informing us, Bonny.

It's very confused just now, Lily, but reports are coming in that there is more than one gunman on the loose, and the fear is that a Mumbai-type attack has been planned.

http://news.sky.com/story/1358228/live-updates-canada-parliament-shootings

Live updates and photos; it's still ongoing, with reports of shots being fired in a mall.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/10/22/soldier-shot-at-war-memorial-near-canadian-parliament/

Also on Fox, but the site, at least, seems to be a bit behind Sky...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-29728503

Craig Scott
Canadian politician
Posted at
tweets: MPs and Hill staff owe their safety, even lives, to Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers who shot attacker just outside the MPs' caucus rooms.

Always good when someone keeps their head in these situations and gets it right.

Others still seem to be on the loose, though.

Very, very sad news - the Canadian soldier shot at the War Memorial has died of his injuries.

That is truly sad news.  Sorry to read that.  

At least his murderer received pretty instant karma, Lily, courtesy of one of the guards at Parliament, so we won't have to listen to the creature whining in court. It's all still confused, but there does seem to be still one on the loose.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-29728503

is collating tweets, etc.

This is so bizarre especially since it is Canada....Unbelievable in a sense.

There was an incident a couple of days ago, Lily, when a couple of soldiers were hit by a hit-and-run driver - one died. It does look like there have been warnings something was liable to happen since Canada got involved with the latest Middle East war.

As I saw someone pointing out on Sky, if two or three individuals decide to cause mayhem and bloodshed, and stay off the internet, it's very hard to keep tabs on them. The dead killer appears to be a recent Canadian convert to the famed Religion of Peace.

Heroic: Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers, pictured, shot dead one of the gunmen inside the Parliament

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It's strangely satisfying that instant karma was delivered by someone who is most definitely old-school; I do hope the last thing the terrorist saw was someone dressed in Canada's version of the UK's semi-medieval parliamentary rigout.

It is now looking less likely that there was more than one gunman; reports of incidents at shopping malls, etc., seem to have been caused by general panic and confusion.

So it is all over now, hopefully, bar the sad, sad death of the soldier?

For now at least, fingers crossed, Lily. The big worry is that there are a lot more of what is being called 'lone wolves' out there; it seems the killer was on police radar, and it had been -wrongly - thought that he had been turned away from radical Islam. He first came to notice by, naturally, ranting on FB.

Pity FB and twitter couldn't be UN-invented; they've proved less than beneficial to the human race.

You have a very good point.

IMO, they're snares for the stupid and gullible, Lily. The none-too-bright, the embittered, the ones with 'issues' that resent authority, etc., are all too easily sucked in, because they imagine that those feeding their egos and reinforcing their own skewed world-view are on their side. In reality, they're just being recruited as cannon fodder.

I know one argument runs that if they're ranting on twitter or FB, they're harmlessly letting off steam, but time and again it goes beyond ranting and someone with a chip on their shoulder, that may well have grown out of it otherwise, ends up committing an atrocity.

Or runs off to Syria to marry some homicidal thug she's fallen in 'love' with on the internet.

And the owners of social sites don't give a XXXX about the damage they do as long as the $$$$$ keep rolling in.

Of course they don't care when they are multi-billionaires.  The are patting themselves on the back...

In control: Vickers, who worked for the RCMP for 29 years before taking on the role, is being hailed a hero


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2804397/Canadian-sergeant-arms-58-hailed-hero-shooting-dead-terrorist-Zehaf-Bibeau-exchange-gunfire-30-year-career.html#ixzz3GzY2icRJ
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There's something rather Bond-ish about Mr Vickers. I am personally glad he killed the scumbag, and we won't have to put up with him whining about his rights in a courtroom, and causing more distress to his victim's family.



Innocent victim: Natan Cirillo, 24, was the soldier shot dead in Wednesday's terror attack on the Canadian Parliament complex


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2804397/Canadian-sergeant-arms-58-hailed-hero-shooting-dead-terrorist-Zehaf-Bibeau-exchange-gunfire-30-year-career.html#ixzz3GzYVGXDI
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The poor guy.  His life had barely started.  

His gun wasn't even loaded, Lily, because it was a ceremonial duty. Killing him was an act of utter cowardice.

I wouldn't recommend any jihadists trying that in London; though assorted military carry out ceremonial duties, they've carried loaded weapons for a very long time now.

Hope the barsteward who did it rots in hell.

He may have assumed that no-one would be armed inside the Parliament, either, Lily, as Ottowa isn't exactly a hotspot for trouble.

In which case, he got a very unpleasant surprise in his last seconds on earth.

Hurray for Mr.Vickers.

I've been reading the US media, Lily, Mr Vickers seems to have a bit of a fan club, for plain and simply shooting the b*gger without any carry-on, civilians getting hit in crossfire or similar disasters.