Exactly. Canadian laws are design to incentivize de-escalating the level of violence. Unlike American laws which incentivize jumping straight to lethal force.
“I feared for my life and the lives of my fellow officers.”
Why are individuals held to stricter rules? It should not be legal to shoot someone who is stealing your lawn gnomes but an armed thief inside your house is a thread of unknown magnitude.
IMO an important fact is the intruder was charged with possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
That raises the threshold of reasonable force quite a bit in my eyes, including “life threatening injuries”
Now he shouldn’t keep beating him when he’s down and out but I’m sympathetic to the invadee so far.
That’s what judges are for, I’m curious how it comes out.
Exactly. Canadian laws are design to incentivize de-escalating the level of violence. Unlike American laws which incentivize jumping straight to lethal force.
“I feared for my life and the lives of my fellow officers.”
Why are individuals held to stricter rules? It should not be legal to shoot someone who is stealing your lawn gnomes but an armed thief inside your house is a thread of unknown magnitude.