From the Archives: Brave Sgt-at-Arms confronts shooter inside Quebec's National Assembly

[Takes_Two_To_Tango]

Very courageous of this man, not a surprise considering his past experiences. Jalbert served in World War II and the Korean War, ultimately attaining the rank of major in the Royal 22e Régiment.

René Jalbert - Wikipedia

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Forty years ago, on May 8, 1984, a heavily armed man dressed in combat fatigues entered the National Assembly in Quebec City and killed three government employees.Thirteen others were injured, and if it weren’t for the level-headed response of the National Assembly’s Sergeant-at-Arms and retired army major, René Marc Jalbert, many more could have been hurt.

Jalbert's heroism is captured on video as he enters the chamber where the shooter, Canadian Forces Corporal Denis Lortie, sits on the main chair with his automatic weapons.Jalbert eventually persuades Lortie to let others pinned down in the chamber leave.Jalbert was honoured with Canada’s highest civilian award for bravery, the Cross of Valour. He died of cancer at the age of 74 in 1996, the same year Lortie was released from prison on parole.



(To be honest I never heard about this story until today)

 

[blaseblase]

The guy murdered 3 people and only got 10 years?

 

[Cherry Brigand]

The guy murdered 3 people and only got 10 years?

Oh, Canada!

 

[Osculater]

The guy murdered 3 people and only got 10 years?

That's how Canada rolls haha

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

What the hell? I’ve never heard about him or this incident at all. You’d think that during the Parliament Hill shootings in 2014 where once again it was the Sergeant at Arms (that time Michael Vickers who gunned down the perpetrator) that saved the day that there would have been significant call backs to the Quebec incident 30 years earlier, but I don’t recall anything of the sort.

So I guess the moral of the story is Sergeant at Arms are the biggest bad asses in Canada.

 

[ChickenBrother]

What a badass. But with this kind of experience and hardware, who the hell is going to resist?