Andrew Coyne, The National Post:
...They stood on hillsides and overpasses, by the hundreds. People pulled over their cars and stood — to bear witness, to show respect, to reflect.
This is how so many people respond in these situations. Full of kindness, they want to honour courage and console the families of the fallen with the thought that they are not alone, like the woman who knelt with Cpl. Cirillo in his last moments to tell him how much he was loved.
And then there are those who just want to hear themselves talk. Just as tragedy brings out the best in some people,
so it seems to bring out the worst in others: an instinct for self-aggrandizement, a longing to show how this incident, like every other, just proves their pet theory, how they were
right all along.