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Shooting At Canadian Parliament

Posted by Soulskill on from the be-safe dept.

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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  1. Dear Canada.... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dont let your idiots in parliment go all panic mode like the Raving Morons we have running this place in Washington DC.

    This was a rare incident by a insane person, nothing more. Put more money into public mental health.

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    1. Re:Dear Canada.... by Galaga88 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I agree with not going into "panic mode", but we don't know who did this yet. It might be a person who could have been dealt with by improved public mental health, or it may have been a foreign actor engaging in terrorism against the Canadian state.

      We can't call what it is until we have facts. And we have precious few right now. Which is all the more reason not to panic.

    2. Re:Dear Canada.... by dskoll · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Recognize that the tenets of Islam are incompatible with Western Democracy. Then make it treasonous to promote those tenets.

    3. Re:Dear Canada.... by lgw · · Score: 5, Insightful

      >>> It's time to deal with radical Islamist extremists.

      How? Declare Islam a thought-crime?

      The problem has never been "Islam", and wanting to eliminate terrorists has nothing to do with being anti-religion. The problem is, as has happen so often throughout history, a bunch of people who self-identify with a particular religion are being steered by leaders who claim that religion as a tool to get followers.

      The problem must be solved within the leadership of Islam. The honest leaders of the religion need to become more vigorous about this - expel those inciting violence, denounce them as heretics, cause a schism, all the same shit that the Catholic church had to go through in centuries past.

      National leaders who are not religious leaders need to do what they can to support that. When someone with religious authority denounces a terrorist religious leader as such, of course that terrorist group will try to kill that authority. The state can offer protection.

      Completely separate form religion, we should be bombing the fuck out of assholes who start conquering, looting and raping their neighbors like it was the middle ages! America still has some strength, and there's a growing territory where women have become property, and are being raped daily. Where men re being executed out of hand for having the wrong religion. Where they're partying like it's 999. We can't let that cancer grow - humanity mustn't slide back into barbarism.

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    4. Re:Dear Canada.... by pubwvj · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "It's time to deal with radical Islamist extremists."

      That sentence could be simplified to:

      "It's time to deal with extremists."

      Simplicity is beauty. And tends to get at the core of the problem.

  2. Re:Why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok i c....

    So basically we should give up all our civil liberties, and live in a police state with harsher restrictions than sharia law WITH high tech tools to enforce it.

    All in the name to "feel" safer? That is your solution?

    I lived in Canada all my life. Do you know how many terrorists that wanted to kill me I have come face to face with? 0.
    You know how many statistically speaking I am expected to come face to face with? 0
    The probability of me being killed by terrorists in Canada is so close to 0, it might as well be 0.

    If ever it happens, you know what, it's a tragedy, it sucks, I have the worst luck in the world, but at least I would die knowing he failed to scare us, he failed to take away the rights and freedoms so many others before me fought and died for.

    For us to simply give them all up because we are scared due to a few crazed individuals is a disgrace to those who fought in WW1, WW2 and countless other conflicts, fighting against much more scarier threats....

  3. Re:Why by JMJimmy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's 1, possibly 2 guys with long guns. Even if it is a "terrorist" attack, it's a rather pathetic and poorly organized/planned one. The "radicalized" Canadian was not a terrorist, he was a disturbed individual who latched onto the ideology on his own accord. There were no links to any terrorist organization, no indoctrination, etc - had he latched onto any other ideology (like aliens are real or the boogeyman is going to eat your children) and done the same the conversation would be very different.

  4. Re:Why by tburkhol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    " Do you know how many terrorists that wanted to kill me I have come face to face with? 0.
    Remove the "I have come face to face with" and that answer will certainly not be zero.

    No, that answer will almost certainly still be zero. The answer to "Do you know how many terrorists want to kill a generic Westerner?" would not be zero, but who fucking cares? There's a few white people who would be happy to see a generic black person dead (and vice versa); there's a few Irish who would be happy to see a generic Englishman dead.

    The relevant question is not whether there exist some people willing to kill your countrymen, because that will never be an empty set. The relevant question is whether those people are likely to actually kill more of your countrymen than moose, sharks, or bed sheets. The answer is that you should be much more frightened of bed sheets than either terrorists or sharks.