Re: [OT] Self-defense in Canada

On 2024-12-10 10:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Dec 10, 2024 at 7:08:35 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

I just saw this video about a guy in Toronto who experienced a home
invasion and was only able to reach someone on 911 on the 5th try -
after the invaders had left.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCFiuiX38TI [2 minutes]
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The comments under the video, if true, are quite disturbing in some
cases. I was especially troubled about the guy who called 911 and had to
be transferred to 4 other 911 operators (around the province) before he
finally got one that spoke English!!! Silly me, I would have assumed
that fluency in English (and maybe French) was a prerequisite for a 911
operator in this country....
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I got to wondering for the umpteenth time about what my rights were with
respect to self-defense. As luck would have it, the algorithm put this,
video by a Canadian lawyer at the top of my suggested videos list:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xolys_2hl4 [8 minutes]
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Clearly, we do NOT have anything like Stand Your Ground or Castle
Doctrine here! The presenter, who is apparently a practising lawyer,
repeatedly mentions a case where a home-owner shot and killed an
intruder who had threatened to hurt his elderly mother and was charged
with 2nd degree murder. (The video is a year old so I'm curious to know
what happened with this case but he doesn't give enough details to
research it.)
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I expect that if a crisis happened to me where I had to defend myself,
I'd just do whatever seemed necessary and hope that the legal system
wouldn't screw me over but I wouldn't be so naive as to assume that
there would be no consequences.

 Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
 

Exactly. I first heard that as dialog out of Sipowicz's mouth in an NYPD Blue episode and it made a LOT of sense then, just as it does now.
My heart goes out to everyone who has to stand trial for harming someone in self-defense, like Daniel Penny just did. Fortunately, it worked out in his case although the stress must have been borderline unbearable.
I just hope his acquittal hasn't put a target on his back, a target that some BLM type might like to hit....
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Rhino