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@verius The RCMP are ... basically the Canadian sterotype, most of the time. Polite, to a fault, yes ma'am, no ma'am, g'day, and so forth, their code of conduct basically prescribes that. But when the chips are down, the only way to get more badass than the RCMP ... is basically JTF-2. ... who are also Canadian.
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@gameragodzilla @maiyannah
Well she was Jo Cox, an MP for Labour party.
As far as anyone call tell so far, there wasn't one. Man arrested is 52, witnesses report that she was shot three times by him, then apparently kicked when bleeding out.
As noted, people tried to restrain the guy, apparently an older man was lightly injured in the attempts.
The only possible motive that was noted so far was that one witness reported that the attacker shouted "Britain first" but other witnesses quickly denied that and it's since been removed from articles.
Gun looks homemade apparently, knife apparently a hunting one.
Campaigning in the EU referendum has stopped for a while due to the attack, and a spokesman noted that the flags of Downing street are being put at half mast to pay tribute.
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@katiekats @maiyannah Was it an attempted mass shooting or just trying to assassinate one person?
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@gameragodzilla @maiyannah
According to witnesses, she was shot first multiple times, then people tried to restrain him, and when they did, he lunged at her with his knife.
Thus -presumably- he was aiming for her, but no one truly knows enough details and as noted, we don't really know his motivation, so I couldn't say.
Either way, tis a tragic occurrence.
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@maiyannah @katiekats Probably saved a lot of lives too if the shooter was indeed just randomly firing.
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@gameragodzilla @katiekats Yeah so I hope he was okay, cause the guys a goddamned hero.
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@maiyannah @katiekats Maybe the news media should cover people like him rather than the killers.
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@gameragodzilla @katiekats This is why the CBC made a point of covering Sgt Vickers rather than the shooter, when we had the shooting at the War Memorial here.
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@maiyannah @katiekats That man's a goddamn hero, too.
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@gameragodzilla @katiekats Did you hear recently he was in another such incident?
He got made the Canadian amabassador to Ireland or something like that, and he was attending an event there with a local dignitary, and someone like rushed the guy and Vickers tackled him and restrained him.
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@verius
The best part of this image is it is true. We also broke a record for long-distance shooting when a sniper took out an afghani militant from basically the next country over.
https://community.highlandarrow.com/attachment/289
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@verius @maiyannah @katiekats Figure that changed under Trudeau though.
The guy makes Jimmy Carter look strong.
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@gameragodzilla @katiekats @verius He's been too busy doing photo-ops to actually fuck something up, so far, and I'm just fine with that.
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@maiyannah Ah, so he's like the Belgian government a few years ago when they couldn't create a federal government coalition and went without a federal government for 589 days creating no more problems than a sense of embarrassment.
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