I don't know if you guys heard this or not, but today in Ottawa (the capital city of Canada), a gunman armed with a rifle shot one of the soldiers standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, which is only steps away from the Parliament Building. Apparantly, even though the guards at the War Memorial have rifles, they have no ammunition for those rifles, so the guard was essentially unarmed. Some reports say that there were two guards, but only one was killed.

The gunman then ran into the front entrance of the Parliament Building, right past the building's own security people and got into a gun fight with the guards there. The chief of security at the Parliament building, called the "Master of Arms" came out of his office to see what was going on and came face to face with the gunman. The Master of Arms dropped to the floor and fired three shots with his revolver to kill the gunman.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are now investigating this to see if it was in any way related to the terroism being exported to western countries by groups like ISIS.

This kind of thing has never happened before, and the gunman only got as far as he did because his actions took everyone by surprise. No one expected anything like this to happen, and it takes some time for people to get it into their heads that it really is happening, and they need to act. A similar thing happened at the White House just about a week or so ago, but in that case the guy wasn't armed.

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