"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls -- the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Due to federal and provincial gun control laws, it is illegal for the average citizen to carry a gun as a means of defense. Therefore, there was no chance that an alert citizen could have nullified the threat that Zehaf-Bibeau posed even as he was setting up for his initial shot. The distance from the War Memorial to the House of Commons is a considerable distance. The shooter would have passed many individuals on his way. Had some individuals been armed, they could have stopped Zehaf-Bibeau long before he reached the front door of Parliament."
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