Self Defence in Canada (split from Gun Control 2.0)

[RangerRay]

If someone shot my kid, I could see me reacting the exact same way.

If I got emotional enough, I could do a lot of things that are illegal. If the same thing happened to me, I might do the same thing. I don’t know. Does that mean I should avoid jail because I lost my shit?

 

[suffolkowner]

If I got emotional enough, I could do a lot of things that are illegal. If the same thing happened to me, I might do the same thing. I don’t know. Does that mean I should avoid jail because I lost my shit?

In these cases i am prepared to give a large benefit of doubt to the person that is being attacked. If you dont want to be punched back, dont punch someone first.

What is the purpose of the justice system? What is it trying to accomplish?
Am I less likely to shoot an intruder because some other individual got sentenced for doing so?

 

[Halifax Tar]

If I got emotional enough, I could do a lot of things that are illegal. If the same thing happened to me, I might do the same thing. I don’t know. Does that mean I should avoid jail because I lost my shit?

Honest question, are you parent ?

I fail understand how someone could not have emotional response to your house being broken into and your child/kid shot.

That means the Justice system should remember who exactly the offers are and prosecute then, and not the victims.

Taking the initiative and taking the fight to your attacker doesn't change the roles. The victim is still the victim.

 

[RangerRay]

In these cases i am prepared to give a large benefit of doubt to the person that is being attacked. If you dont want to be punched back, dont punch someone first.

What is the purpose of the justice system? What is it trying to accomplish?
Am I less likely to shoot an intruder because some other individual got sentenced for doing so?

Normally, so am I. But someone who presumably never held a handgun before blasting at a fleeing car in the dark in what I assume is a residential area doesn’t help. Neither does obstructing the investigation. The law will take a dim view on that. And there were factors that warranted the light sentence handed down by the lower court and upheld by the appeals court

 

[RangerRay]

Honest question, are you parent ?

I fail understand how someone could not have emotional response to your house being broken into and your child/kid shot.

That means the Justice system should remember who exactly the offers are and prosecute then, and not the victims.

Taking the initiative and taking the fight to your attacker doesn't change the roles. The victim is still the victim.

Not that it matters, but I am. I run through these scenarios all the time and there are some things I would willingly go to jail for.

It doesn’t matter what I think. It matters what the law thinks. He took the fight to his attackers in his home after his son (child? adult?) was shot and the law said that was appropriate. It’s when he took the fight outside the home after the immediate threat ended is where he got in trouble. Lying to the cops afterwards didn’t help.

Again, he got a lighter sentence for mitigating/aggravating factors. The Crown was dumb appealing this.

 

[mariomike]

Does that mean I should avoid jail because I lost my shit?

Not a legal expert, but " in the heat of the moment " and " temporary insanity " come to mind.

After discovering Key was having an affair with his wife. His defense team successfully used a "temporary insanity" plea for the first time in U.S. history, arguing an uncontrollable frenzy.

On the other hand, after enough time had passed to cool down a bit, and plotting cold-blooded revenge, perhaps the courts would take a less sympathetic view? < dunno emoji

 

[suffolkowner]

Normally, so am I. But someone who presumably never held a handgun before blasting at a fleeing car in the dark in what I assume is a residential area doesn’t help. Neither does obstructing the investigation. The law will take a dim view on that. And there were factors that warranted the light sentence handed down by the lower court and upheld by the appeals court

is 3 shots blasting away? I didnt read that the car was fleeing yet when he shot. I am curious where the shots landed
Hard to believe that an individual that has just suffered a horrific attack, when confronted by our protectors may have succumbed to the pressure and felt the need to protect himself.
I think its bad that he felt that need.
I think its bad that it proved to be prescient