that a person had his wife and daughter sexually assaulted and murdered, he shot the gun and was arrested (again my friend loved to tell me random and some times false crap.)
criminal code= violence is entirely legal if someone has “reasonable grounds” to believe that the “threat of force is being made against them or another person.”
If you’re defending yourself against a violent attack and there is no other way to escape death or serious injury, then you can use an unlimited amount of violence to stop it
Canada even has a de facto “stand your ground” law. Nobody in Canada has an obligation to retreat when their home is involved. If an intruder comes through the front door with an axe, no judge will ever question why a homeowner didn’t simply escape out the back door.
Gilbert Budgell, the 53-year-old man whose home they were allegedly invading, is now in police custody facing the unusually severe charge of second-degree murder.
