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TIL that Kevin Vickers is not the first Canadian parliamentary Sergeant-at-Arms to stop a killing spree. In 1984, Quebec’s René Marc Jalbert went unarmed to the scene of a massacre in the National Assembly and persuaded the gunman to surrender

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