Reacting (versus Thinking)

Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press

It's really hard to reserve judgement after the mayhem in Ottawa yesterday.

A deranged gunman murdered Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a reservist for the Canadian Armed Forces, as he stood on guard at the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier", just outside the Parliament Buildings.

On Monday, another criminal mowed down Warrent Officer Patrice Vincent in a parking lot in Quebec.

Although the incident on Monday has been tied to Muslim Radicalization, yesterdays has not - so far.

It's easy to make the seemingly logical leap to link these two incidents, and to see a grander plot at play. But the prudent thing to do is to examine the evidence.

Let the truth, whatever it might be, channel the decisions we make going forward.