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Originally Posted by fredr123
From the Calgary Herald article here: http://www.calgaryherald.com/busines...735/story.html
The home owner struck the burglar in the face. Twice. The Criminal Code in Canada doesn't go so far as many think it does in allowing you to use force to protect your home or other people. It's not like in the United States where you can pretty much just shoot a guy who is found in your house uninvited.
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That's the case in very few States. The vast majority of the US follows the same, essentially common law, standard of allowing the use of limited force just as Canada does.