Global pandemic or no global pandemic, we can never underestimate man's inhumanity against man.
Over a 12 hour period last night and this morning, a 51-year old white male denture maker from Dartmouth disguised as a Mountie drove around rural Nova Scotia shooting and killing 16 people including a RCMP constable. The assailant is now dead as well although it is not clear whether he was subdued by the authorities or died by his own hand. However, he died he perpetrated the worst mass shooting and mass murder in Canadian history eclipsing the 14 women murdered at L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal in December 1989.
The man who perpetrated the Montreal massa re killed because he hated women. At this hour, it is unclear why this man killed while disguised as a Mountie. Perhaps the coming days will bring about a clearer picture. Or perhaps we will never know what drove this man towards homicidal rage as we will never know why all those concert goers in Las Vegas were shot dead by a man in a hotel room a few short years ago.
The only thing we can know for certain is that evil exists and can be unleashed in any place, any place and in any form including disguise.
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