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.