[BluH2o]

“Canadian policing’s greatest tactical clusterf***.”

One of the RCMP officers was a young rookie ... only on duty a few weeks ... his first posting after going thru basic. Not sure if that played any role in four officers being taken out by one gunman ... but it was a tragic day for all law enforcement.

[WL-law]

Technically, in fleeing for their lives, Jennifer and Mike had followed the handbook. If you take a fire safety course, they tell you don’t try to save the kids or the cats; scram outta there and wait till the professionals turn up. Never having taken the course, Jennifer and Mike didn’t know that, but, even if they had, I wonder how many other mothers and fathers could put the parental instinct to protect on hold so thoroughly as to abandon three young children to roam around a blazing house. And, even if one accepts the logic of the safety course, couldn’t one of the parents have leapt out the window and called 911, while the other attempted to locate the children and, if he couldn’t rescue them, at least prevent them wandering deeper into the fire?

All the courage of George Costanza at a children's party?