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In 1988, a US Senator invoked an obscure rule to allow the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest absent Senators and bring them into the chamber for a vote. One Senator attempted to escape, but was caught and carried feet-first into the Senate chamber by three officers.

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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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1. René Marc Jalbert, the Sergeant-at-arms of the Quebec National Assembly. When the parliament was attacked in 1984 by a mentally ill soldier who killed 3 people, Jalbert confronted the gunman and persuaded him to surrender after talking to him for 4 hours.

2. In 1984 Denis Lortie stormed the Quebec National Assembly killing 3 and wounding 13. It would have been more had he not come at the wrong time on the wrong day. Sergeant-at-arms Rene Jalbert convinced him to give up by being so nonchalant that he chit-chated with him while smoking a cigarette.

3. Major David Vivian Currie led a small force to cut off the escape of two German armies and held off counterattacks while greatly outnumbered. He took 1,200 Germans prisoner and received the Victoria Cross. He later became the Sergeant at Arms for the Canadian Parliament.

4. The Sergeant at Arms of the US House gets to carry around a freakin' silver mace that he presents to the House when it gets too unruly.

5. Jesse Ventura was the Sergeant-At-Arms for the Dago chapter of the Mongols MC

6. In 2014 Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers received a standing ovation for foiling an attack on the Canadian Parliament.

7. The Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives has a mace that can be presented to restore order in the chamber.

8. The Sergeant at Arms of the US House of Representatives can, in the event of disorder, wield a ceremonial mace, "presenting" it to the offending member as a means of restoring order.

9. On May 8th, 1984, René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the National Assembly of Quebec, risked his life to talk a gunman into surrendering to the police.