Self Defence in Canada (split from Gun Control 2.0)

[IKnowNothing]

Self defence doesn’t mean shooting people. It means using reasonable force to stop being attacked as per Canadian law. It isn’t a intent to harm or shoot anyone, it is the intent to stop being harmed. One of the case law cited in that 2004 case mentioned specifically that someone defending themselves from attack isn’t dangerous to the public peace, they are protecting the public peace (not going back through it again). Basically the law is as clear as mud on all it, likely intentionally so.

Except absent a clear and imminent threat of actual harm to be stopped, there's no self defence to be argued- it's just a plan to potentially shoot someone. The quoted passages were quite clear.