Posted on 08/31/2025 1:56:57 PM PDT by Twotone
canaDUH.
I guess Canada has no Castle Doctrine.
In Massachusetts if you encounter someone breaking into your house you have a duty to retreat. If you don’t but rather resist and injure the intruder *you* are charged with a crime.
Sounds a lot like Canada.
They charged both of them with criminal offenses.
Reminds of the times I went to the principal’s office for fighting in school. Both of us were guilty and received several swats to the tuchus regardless of who started it.
If the cops took the victim into custody shouldn’t they be charges with kidnapping?
Canada is a lost cause.
Their government is officially endorsing communism by refusing to protect private property.
The FIRST role of legitimate government is to protect the citizens from unjust aggressors. It has refused to carry out that role, and is moving to communism.
So logic follows that if I find out where the intruder lives and break into his house then he can be arrested for defending himself.
So...you're at home at night, somebody has broken in and you have no idea what his intentions are, and you're expected to assess what's "reasonable" in the eyes of someone who was never in that situation and is safe behind a desk or keyboard? That is just stupid.
Holding the public to the same standards as trained professionals. Only an evil b@st@rd would institute a law like that. Welcome to The Commonwealth. Where criminals are protected.
Other articles reveal that the intruder was armed with a crossbow. What sort of response does the Police Chief think is “proportional” to that? Is the victim limited to using a bow and knife just wasn’t fair? Time for the local government and Police Chief to answer questions at a public hearing, then be fired.
Same in Hawaii. But in Hawaii anyone bashed in a house ends up as shark food.
Police Chief since April 2024. Salary $194,153 plus benefits.
Non-emergency line for the department 705-324-5252, basic email info@klps.ca .
The mayor is Doug Elmslie. His office number is 705-324-9411 ext. 1310
Not going to dox these folks due to board rules, so I’m only providing links from official municipal and police web pages.
<>”law requires that any defensive action be proportionate to the threat faced. This means that while homeowners do have the right to protect themselves and their property, the use of force must be reasonable given the circumstances.”<>
Florida got rid of such nonsense a few years ago.
Shoot and kill a burglar? The Sheriff will thank you.
What a messed up country
Right. The proportionate use of force is when the bad guy is no longer a threat. It’s a ridiculous standard. That said. some people get carried away. There’s a well known self defense case where a home owner shot an armed home intruder. He was fine until he reloaded and shot him some more. The DA nailed him.
What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny—the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through “sensitivity training” and multiculturalist curricula, “hate crime” laws, gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally, and a vast labyrinth of other measures. In a word, anarcho-tyranny.
— Samuel Francis
PROPORTIONATE TO THE THREAT FACED?????
WHO DECIDES THAT & HOW QUICKLY?
IF ANYONE IS INSIDE MY HOUSE——THEY ARE A THREAT & WILL REGRET THEIR ACTIONS.
THEY WON’T GET CHANCE #2.
You just need to make sure there’s only one side of the story
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