Obviously, yesterdays shooting in Ottawa is a tragic event and all types of
questions are being asked. But leave it to the mainstream news media to ask
questions EXCEPT the one question that everyone is wondering... How did a
gunman get so far into the main parliament building in the first place?
I've been thinking about this Kevin Vickers situation. Mr. Vickers is the
one who successfully brought down the gunman at parliament hill yesterday. And
today is being hailed as a hero. By
taking down the shooter he definitely stooped a terrible tragedy from getting
worse and that's of course is a good thing. However... let's not forget that this
guy is the head of all security at parliament
hill and he should be put on the hot seat about how a gunman was able to
advance that far into parliament hill and come within feet of being able to
kill mass amounts of people at once.
It's
my understanding that the two security guards at the main entrance are unarmed.
This seems to be irresponsible to me. Supposedly, the main duty of these
officers is to check ID. A little further inside the hill are armed officers in
civilian clothes. But even this failed yesterday as one of these undercover
officers was shot in the leg while trying to grab the shooters riffle. The shooter
continued down the hall getting within feet of where parliamentary meetings
were going on. At this point, Mr. Vickers heard the chaos in the hall and
grabbed his gun from his desk drawer (which also seems a bit odd to me) and
shot the gunman in the hallway.
Government
security failed us big time yesterday. If I were the prime minister, there is
no way I would trust my well being and security to a government agency. I would
hire a private security firm who has a vested interest in making sure I'm safe.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have a job. The problem with many Government agencies
is they rarely have to answer when they mess up and are rarely held accountable
for their actions.
How
much heat is the RCMP going to take for "Being Caught Off Guard"? Government
never goes out of business, they just keep on rolling along. If
this were a private security company, guaranteed... there would be a different
company looking after parliament hill starting today.
Kevin
Vickers. Hero?... Maybe. Completely innocent? He'll have to be put on the hot
seat to know for sure.
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