I thought the exact same thing, only here in America! I am disgusted, WTF is wrong with people? Have we become Canadianized?
What, you thought cowardice was a uniquely canadian instutution? At least the Canadians actually stopped the guy from escaping. Those folks didn’t even do that...
The Greyhound attacker seems to be a real mental health case, and last I heard everybody who’d ever dealt with him was shocked and said they’d never seen a hint of a problem with him. In his first court appearance he quietly begged the court “Please kill me”. He’d only come to Canada from China a couple of years earlier, and I really have wonder what had happened to him in China that might have damaged his mind. He’s now said to be cooperating fully with the professionals doing his court-ordered psychiatric assessment.
The worrisome thing in both cases is not so much the attacker, but the reaction of the many witnesses. In both cases, the other passengers could have stopped the attack much sooner, but didn’t (though in the case of the Greyhound attack, it might have been too late for the victim after the first few seconds).