Self Defence in Canada (split from Gun Control 2.0)

[brihard]

I'm not a huge fan of adding criminal offences where current ones are adequate. Governments like to do this. I would rather see differentiations in sentencing provisions to sanction certain circumstances.

I generally agree, though I wouldn’t be opposed to a discrete offence for home invasions where the home is believed to be occupied or the accused is reckless to the likelihood. Anyway though that was more tangential to options on how we’d capture the stats.

 

[Furniture]

I generally agree, though I wouldn’t be opposed to a discrete offence for home invasions where the home is believed to be occupied or the accused is reckless to the likelihood. Anyway though that was more tangential to options on how we’d capture the stats.

As a complete layman in the legal world, I think this might be a useful distinction for crime stats tracking.

Breaking into an obviously empty structure is very different from breaking into a structure that is clearly, or likely occupied.

As a youngster, I myself engaged in some minor "break and enter" of old cottages that weren't used much. That's an entirely different beast than kicking down the door of a home you know people are in.

 

[lenaitch]

As a complete layman in the legal world, I think this might be a useful distinction for crime stats tracking.

Breaking into an obviously empty structure is very different from breaking into a structure that is clearly, or likely occupied.

As a youngster, I myself engaged in some minor "break and enter" of old cottages that weren't used much. That's an entirely different beast than kicking down the door of a home you know people are in.

True, but you can subdivide stats without necessarily changing the law. Impaired operation by drug vs alcohol, for example.