Your thoughts on the shooting on Parliament hill
Our society is based on fundamental legal principles. One of those principles is that a victim can not make justice for itself.
We, MPs in the House of Commons, have been the victim of an attempted murder by what appears increasingly to be an isolated act of someone with psychological distress. We as MPs have the power to change laws. I firmly believe that in the case before us, we must make an extra effort to keep a cool head and have the interests of citizens at the center of our concerns. We must not upset the delicate balance between security and individual rights without a real social debate. We need to reflect on the tragedy that has occurred and avoid the temptation to drift to a paranoid security obsession.
We must not give in to fear. We should not act on the heat of the moment without a thorough reflexion and debate.
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