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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The thing about "self-defense", is that many people have been killed "accidentally-on-purpose" and tried to use self-defense as a way to get off. If you pretty much give someone the right to use whatever force they want while not actually being physically hurt or in imminent danger for one's life, then you make it real easy for someone to commit murder and use a self-defense excuse... your word against their's in that case.
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Well, I'm mostly referring to crimes committed in the home - nothing good can ever come from a home invasion, and if someone turns out to be in my house in the middle of the night, they're going to get what is coming to them.
Here is an example - someone is in your home during the night, you hear noise downstairs, you grab your gun, go check it out. You see someone in your house, it is kind of dark, you ask them to freeze, or you'll shoot them. They ignore you and instead start moving towards you. You take aim, you're not sure if they have a weapon or not, but you decide not to take any chances, because you're the last line of defense between you and your family. You aim for the center mass, they end up dieing and it turns out they were unarmed (you weren't sure because it was dark).
Now, tell me, do you think I should be charged in that instance? Because under Canadian law I can be.