Yeah, much better to wait for a homicidal follower of the "religion of peace" with no state affiliation (or no recognized state) to fulfill his twisted, barbaric dream of setting the world ablaze. We can then share a drink at a table in the next world and comfort ourselves that we took the moral high ground.
It's one thing to be killed; it's another to commit suicide. Even worse is death by moral suicide.
Surely using a nuclear weapon in Syria wouldn't cause there to be more people with a blood feud with the West? I mean the US would have proved their moral superiority?
That is the worst thought through argument I have ever heard.
Anyway... I am from Ottawa, in Ottawa. Actually a patient at the hospital where they treated the victims. The hospital remained open with some police presence and only a couple of entrances open, monitored by security. Lots of reporters on the sidewalk, cameras pointed at the ambulance bay.
People seem somewhat alarmed, but not totally freaked out. Had friends downtown. Their office was locked down until 4:00. I think things will return to normal.
My opinion is that the shooter was mentally ill and not really much of a terrorists, but that we are lucky he only killed one person and not a dozen.
Thanks to Boston for the support.
Somehow this seems surreal to me. The Boston Bombing felt more alarming. Weird. I feel horrible for the young soldier killed pointlessly by a sick lunatic.