Canadian Self Defense Issues

[nakinate]

I've heard people say that Canada is just as free as the US and we shouldn't act like we're better. Sure, ok.

I'm just glad I'm not dealing with this:
Meet The Canadian Who's Now Being Prosecuted For Self-Defense | Daily Wire

 

[Cameramonkey]

SMH.

So let me get this straight. Men invade his home using illegal weapons, and he gets his hand on one and uses it against them. Because he now has possession of the illegal gun, he is guilty of using it to protect his life?!?!??

I want to ask the prosecutor this question; WT actual F do you expect this person to do? Lay down and be killed? How does this prosecution help anyone except the criminals who invaded his personal space illegally?

 

[croy]

SMH.

So let me get this straight. Men invade his home using illegal weapons, and he gets his hand on one and uses it against them. Because he now has possession of the illegal gun, he is guilty of using it to protect his life?!?!??

I want to ask the prosecutor this question; WT actual F do you expect this person to do? Lay down and be killed? How does this prosecution help anyone except the criminals who invaded his personal space illegally?

Throw in the guy was also dealing drugs and was targeted because of it.

 

[HubertGummer]

Throw in the guy was also dealing drugs and was targeted because of it.

Then charge him for dealing drugs. The charges for self defense are rediculous.

 

[Beowulf]

Then charge him for dealing drugs. The charges for self defense are rediculous.

Exactly. They have him charged with possession with intent to distribute, but frankly, I've seen those charges used to unnecessarily beef up a prosecutors case against someone arrested for possession here in the states, to try to force the person to plead out. Not sure how it works in Canada, but often in the US, a prosecutor throws the book at a defendant just to get them to plea to a lesser charge and avoid an actual trial (which frankly, I find an odious practice).

Don't believe me? Take a look at this nonsense.

Woman Spends A Month In Jail After Cops Mistake SpaghettiOs For Meth | HuffPost

They almost got a woman to plea guilty to meth possession (when she never had any) just to get the madness to stop and to get out of jail. Barbaric.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Then charge him for dealing drugs. The charges for self defense are rediculous.

THIS. Dont throw a bogus charge just because you dislike what he was doing. Even the worst criminals deserve a fair trial and appropriate charges.

 

[rhino]

Canadians also do not enjoy free speech in the same sense we do. Apparently, most of them don't care about that or about the fact that they face legal repercussions from exercising their human right of self-defense.

 

[Mark 1911]

Canada may look a lot like the US, feel a lot like the US, but there are key differences. This is one of them. Health care in Canada is a lot different too. It's great if you need something minor, not so great if you need life-saving treatment and time is of the essence - good luck.

My wife is Canadian, and I haven't spent that much more time in Canada than most other Americans, but I've spent some. My general impression, even from the language of the signs on their highways, but also from posts like this one, is that the relationship between the Canadian government and the Canadian people is more like a parent child relationship than what we are used to here - of the people, by the people, for the people. Canada is NOT that.

 

[actaeon277]

Very few places enjoy our freedom of speech.
And we are enjoying less and less of it each day.

 

[87iroc]

Is this the one where he fired shots as they were running away? That'd be a no-no even in Indiana.