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Originally Posted by Delgar
You can't delink gun rights with the use of lethal defense and expect to be taken seriously. They go hand-in-hand in this case. Canadian case law is repleat with convictions where someone in a scuffle shot another without a gun, and was convicted. The use of a gun is almost prima facie going to go against you in Canada.
Edit: also, in Canada it makes a big difference if you're defending your home as opposed to being in public.
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Lethal force is lethal force. Guns make it easier, but it's far from the only situation.
A big rock near by being used to end Martin's life in Canada would be near the same result. A teenager dead and a man getting off on self-defense. Sure, gun is a gun and you can't disconnect the situation entirely, but bringing up Stand your Ground laws, that weren't brought up in the court, while patting ourselves on the back for Canadian self-defense laws, which near mirror the Florida ones in this regard, is odd.