Oh Canada, where if you are a victim, you get the book thrown at you. http://thechronicleherald.ca/novasc...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
u should only be allowed to kill someone when your life or someone else's life is in danger. shooting suspects running away, doesn't count
Allowed to kill? Forced to kill. Bureacrats think giving dangerous criminals sanctuary, not the citizens they endanger. This guy would have looked for another victim. Too often thieves senselessly kill their targets. People have a right to feel safe in their homes, and communities.
if you shoot fleeing criminals in the back in America you will be charged too, if they are fleeing, self defense no longer applies
I could find no such specific reference to the intruder being shot in the back in the op or the link. In the USA it is not so clear either. If someone invades your home and you fight back including getting some shots in at their back it is not automatically illegal nor should it be. For example if you were pursuing them OUT SIDE your home then it would probably be illegal. But if they merely turned to run while you are resisting and shot or hit them in the back while they are still well within your home then it is still justified at least in most states and it should be.
From the link; Obviously the gun shot wounds must have occurred while they were fleeing since that is when the shots were fired.
Probably why he's been charged. A jury of his peers will decide. Canadians are so anti gun, he'll be convicted of something ...
Home invasion is different. It leaves one with feeling violated for some time. Call it residential rape. And in the heat of the episode I can forgive a victim who continues to fire at perps running away.
"Canadians are so anti gun," Really? I'm Canadian and own 4 rifles. My neighbour across the alley hunts, kills and his family eats only meat he has shot and butchered and put in the freezer. My Aunt lived alone on the homestead for thirty yrs after granddad died. About 2 miles outside the city. She always had a problem with people coming on the farm at night trying to steal her trucks or steal gasoline. A few times they tried to get in her house. She slept every night with a loaded shot gun in her bed room. She always owned a trained police dog and she had bars on all the windows and a cage on the doors. She had the yard lit up like a prison camp. But still we would get her calls in the middle of the night of people on the place and we would arrive as would the RCMP and city cops. When the dog would alert my aunt to a prowler, she would open her upstairs bedroom window and fire a couple shots up into the sky. The police did ask her to stop doing that, and one prowler tried in vain to get her charged with attempted murder. I believe my aunt would have been charged even if she allowed her police dog to attack as the trespasser was walking away. If a victim shoots his attacker, when the attacker is walking away, I wish the courts to understand the terrible state, perhaps physically but definitely mentally, that the attacker has put the innocent victim in. My aunt gave me her shot gun a couple yrs before she died and on the key chain to the gun's lock is the licence tag to her police dog Sam.
