Bravery!

There isn't really much I can think of to describe the shock of the last 24 hours and the horrible developments in North West Alberta. The proper words to help me fully comprehend this tragedy escape me. Four brave members of the RCMP will soon be laid to rest, after making the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of you and me. And I just don't think it's a very fair world today.

This senseless murder of four young police officers, should give us all cause for thought on what is important to our nation as a whole. For they go to work each day to enforce our rules, even when we aren't sure exactly what rules we want them to enforce.

On a Thursday afternoon, four members didn't go home from work. Four families are grieving, friends and co workers remain in shock and a community will forever be a shattered place. As a nation we will now have to question just what has become of us.

I notice the politicians and the judiciary were quick to make comments for the morning news shows today, perhaps they could take a back seat for the next little while. Empty promises to increase sentences, while not enforcing the current limits seem a little self serving at a time like this. Dumping responsibility on one or the other branch of our law making machinery can wait for another day. Let the nation take time to absorb the trauma of such a heinous day.

There are many questions to be asked about the events of March 3rd, but they can be answered in due time. For the moment we take time to honour the memory of those whose lives were cut far too short.

May their families find comfort in the thoughts and prayers of their fellow citizens, may their coworkers go forward to their duty knowing they have the full backing of a grateful nation. It's the least we can offer for the sacrifice of four brave souls.

Learn more about them here and say a prayer for them and for those that now must carry on from here without them.