Posted on 10/24/2014 9:36:12 AM PDT by raptor22
Security: In a country with strict gun control and without a Second Amendment, an armed citizen stopped a terrorist attack as our neighbor to the north becomes a jihadi target.
When Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, aka Michael Hall, was shot dead by Kevin Vickers, the House of Commons sergeant-at-arms, the jihadist wannabe and Muslim convert had already murdered Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a guard at Canada's National War Memorial, and was inside Canada's Parliament building, very near a room where Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was meeting with members of his Conservative Party.
"PM (Harper) was addressing caucus, then a huge boom, followed by rat-a-tat shots. We all scattered. It was clearly right outside our caucus door," Treasury Board Minister Tony Clement told Reuters.
If not for Vickers and his firearm, there's no telling of how big this tragedy could have been.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Well that's inconvenient. </sarc>
I do not know about Canada’s gun control laws....but this article says they’re strict. What’s left unsaid is the Parliament that implemented these “strict” laws felt it was OK to permit guns to provide for their own protection....
Well not to be a Debbie Downer on the narrative here, but Kevin Vickers, Sergeant-at-Arms for the House of Commons, is essentially part of the security apparatus in place to guard our national legislature and hardly qualifies as a random citizen with a gun.
Despite these recent incidents, gun violence remains relatively rare in Canadian cities and there simply isn’t much interest in concealed carry here. This can be confused by some people for an aversion to the concept. It is more like the ignorance of those who live in a different cultural universe. Sure, we have armed drug gangs in our cities and the very occasional incident of gun violence but these are much less frequent than they might be in many American cities. Perhaps if you looked at Duluth MN or Portland ME and compared statistics, you would find something similar to Canada and then ask yourself, if you lived there, would concealed carry be very widespread? I don’t know if it is or not, having visited both places and found them similar to Canadian cities.
Misleading title.
The attacker was not “stopped by an armed citizen.”
The attacker was stopped by a Canadian government agent (”the House of Commons sergeant-at-arms”), armed (and, had an office in the building - he was on the payroll).
If *YOU* happened to be armed and stopped the attacker just meters away and outside the building, *YOU* would have been arrested and charged with several serious offenses.
The “standing ovation” was the sound of liberals who would have you in prison ... and DISARMED permanently.
Canada needs a 2nd ....
Not just “a”. Sounded like there were two: a series of single shots, which overlapped with a clear full-auto burst. These distinguished from the initial shot, which sounded distinctly different from the others.
Interestingly, the single victim of the event was _also_ a Canadian government agent, armed, and NOT allowed ammo.
I’m of the opinion that “ceremonial arms” are disrespectful if they’re not functional.
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Award him the VC.
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