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Shooting At Canadian Parliament
CBC reports that a man pulled up to the War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, got out of his car, and shot a soldier with a rifle. The Memorial is right next to the Canadian Parliament buildings. A shooter (reportedly the same one, but unconfirmed) also approached Parliament and got inside before he was shot and killed. "Scott Walsh, who was working on Parliament Hill, said ... the man hopped over the stone fence that surrounds Parliament Hill, with his gun forcing someone out of their car. He then drove to the front doors of Parliament and fired at least two shots, Walsh said." Canadian government officials were quickly evacuated from the building, while the search continues for further suspects. This comes a day after Canada raised its domestic terrorism threat level. Most details of the situation are still unconfirmed -- CBC has live video coverage here. They have confirmed that there was a second shooting at the Rideau Center, a shopping mall nearby.
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This is a War memorial! You can't shoot people here!
MOAR CRACK!
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
If rob ford were the PM there would be swift response.
Like what, a crack-down?
... or it may have been a foreign actor engaging in terrorism against the Canadian state.
What kind of loser terrorist attacks Canada?
Seriously, was the puppy room at the Petsmart too heavily guarded or something?
About 6 billion of the world population are muslims, that's around 23% of the world population.
I'm going to bet that even some of the most jihad-obsessed radicals, fresh from what passes for school Taliban-land, are better at math than you are.
If there are 6 billion Muslims, and they make up 23% of the world population, that means the world as a population of over 26 billion people.
Do you know some secret place on the planet where we're hiding almost 20 billion extra, previously unknown people?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.