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Originally Posted by Envitro
Wholly incorrect.
In Canada you are allowed to use "reasonable force" and in some instances that can be deemed to be lethal force. Plenty of case law where people use lethal force in self-defense of themselves or their families. If he believed that his family was at risk of death he, under the law, could use lethal force.
The defense chose not to go this way and opted for the "accidental discharge" route.
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Yes, and I didn't say you couldn't use reasonable force. I said in this case it was not justified. Maybe that's jumping the gun, in this case it was never debated because it was not used as a defense, although many seem to think he was acquitted because he was allowed to shoot Boshie.
All sides agreed he was just in using the gun to scare them off. It's the part where it went off and killed someone that it got messy.
We will never know if he would have been aquitted had he claimed self defense.
Being acquitted of manslaughter does not mean he was justified
in firing the gun at another person in self defense.