Posted on 01/22/2011 3:51:31 AM PST by marktwain
“Man faces jail after protecting home from masked attackers,” Ramsin McMahon reports in Canada’s National Post.
Ian Thomson…woke up to the sound of three masked men firebombing his Port Colborne, Ont., home…So Mr. Thomson, a former firearms instructor, grabbed one of his Smith & Wesson revolvers from his safe, loaded it and headed outside dressed in only his underwear.
“He exited his house and fired his revolver two, maybe three times, we’re not sure. Then these firebombing culprits, they ran off,” said his lawyer, Edward Burlew.
The result?
The Crown has recommended Mr. Thomson go to jail, his lawyer said.
His collection of seven guns, five pistols and two rifles was seized, along with his firearms licence.
And now he lives with charges hanging over his head, and in fear of reprisals, from which he is now rendered essentially defenseless—under force of law.
Read the entire story and watch the video. Imagine this were you under terrorist attack by masked fire-bombers.
If anything, Mr. Thomson showed great restraint—anyone throwing Molotov cocktails at an occupied house deserves to be repelled using any and all force necessary, including lethal.
Then remember this incident when hysterical anti-defense zealots characterize passage of “castle doctrine” and “stand your ground” laws as a legislative body “turn[ing] it back on its constituents.”
I suppose if the constituents are violent criminals, they have a point.
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Saints be praised!
Last Sunday we discussed a Catholic News Service report on U.S. bishops calling for elimination of privately-owned handguns, and of Vatican efforts supporting stricter limits on the global firearms trade.
A pro-gun Catholic group is taking action to protest misguided citizen disarmament efforts by some in the church hierarchy:
The St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc. today ripped into gun prohibitionists in the Catholic Church hierarchy and suggested gun owners place a written or printed message of complaint in collection baskets as an initial form of protest.
St. Gabriel Possenti?
If you don’t know he was, you can learn about him here.
And you can get one of those collection basket protest coupons here.
Makes me happy I live in Florida where the state doesn’t get in the way of your self defense.
Coming to an American home near you.
any government that deny's its citizens the right to defend themselves should be overthrown
The purpose of disarmament is to make the common people vulnerable to mob violence. It’s harder to find volunteers to break the windows or torch the house of somebody who’s annoyed certain people, when the target is armed. Disarm the targets, and they will be more likely to not be annoying to the Powers that Be.
It only applies to those that are politically connected.
Free People have rights. Slaves have privileges.
“Freebies” from the government go with slavery.
The ones that are elected to political office are the ones who promise the most “freebies”. Self anointed “conservatives” call them “bacon” as in ,”He/She brings the bacon to his/her district”.
To the majority of voters, the chains of slavery fit comfortably.
Free People have rights. Slaves have privileges.Democrats in America have been busy doing what they can to build a Master/Serf society for nearly a century.
Great for RVs in the past.
Today, no way in hell will I go there.
[Canada Sucks image]
*chuckle* Remember “That 70s Show”? In one episode the kids were bored - nuthin’ to do: “Let’s go to the border and throw rocks at Canadians; they never throw back.”
Sadly, if this man had killed those firebombers, he would of gotten off with a slap on the wrist, just say he feared for his life, he might of got some guns taken away still though.
I live in Alberta, Canada, and it’s true, if someone breaks into your home, you best just cower and beg for mercy. It’s pathetic, and I wonder where my right to self defense went.
When the system will no longer protect you and will in fact consider you guilty if you protect yourself then that system is evil and should be overthrown. By force if need be.
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