I don’t care what the reason is, if you break into a home - the actual home, you deserve whatever you get, no restrictions.

I mean, same argument back. I’m not exactly a castle doctrine advocate, but if they’re breaking into my home they may have decided my stuff is worth more than my life. That’s the thing about actually breaking in, it’s so far past what society deems acceptable that you can’t bet on them not hurting you. I’m not saying a situation like this is acceptable, because end of the day that’s what castle doctrine gets to. But you can’t put it all on our “stuff”, people are also in homes.

When you catch someone in your house, it’s not about your “stuff”. It’s about someone being in your home and all that threat implies. You have no idea how it’s going to end.

Give homeowners the same benefit of the doubt cops get when they kill someone that threatens them. Probably more because they aren’t trained to deal with immediate threats and evaluate the options like a cop would.

Asking some poor bastard whose never had an altercation and that’s scared of being killed or their family being harmed to evaluate a proportional response in seconds is pretty unrealistic. And then making them go through months of legal hassle and cost to prove that what they did in that moment was correct is cruel and unreasonable.

IMO an important fact is the intruder was charged with possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

That raises the threshold of reasonable force quite a bit in my eyes, including “life threatening injuries”

Now he shouldn’t keep beating him when he’s down and out but I’m sympathetic to the invadee so far.

That’s what judges are for, I’m curious how it comes out.

Riiight. Because there’s millions of home invasions that happen in Canada on a daily basis.

I’ve been burglarized, I don’t give a shit about the stuff that was stolen, it’s being fucking sketched out about thinking someone is going to be in there the next time I walk in. That takes years to go away or you just move.

And that isn’t about “possessions”. It’s about violation.

I’m guessing from your dismissive cuntery that this hasn’t happened to you, so why would you understand feeling this way about it, eh?

If someone breaks into my house, that’s locked up and secured in the evening, and while I’m asleep starts ransacking my house, scaring or terrorizing my kids and wife, or causing harm, if their face happens to meet the end of a baseball bat, so be it. Reasonable force or not, I’m protecting.

The fact is, if that person wasn’t breaking into my house, there’d be no need for me to introduce a bat to their face, and they wouldn’t be injured.

This protecting perpetrators is nonsense especially when it’s on my own property. They’re the ones doing illegal activities.

I have been as well. Money stolen once, and the second time I was laid out on the floor with a shot-gun to the back of my head while they took my tv and stereo (way back in the 70’s so no computers, etc to take).

Hope that answers your incorrect assumptions, eh.

Damn as an American whose frame of reference is, “if someone breaks into my home in the middle of the night and I shoot them dead it’s likely going to be called justifiable - period” it’s wild to see this.

Like, I’m not saying it’s good that we basically have a mentality of “yo if someone comes into your house you can blast em” as a people … But it’s interesting how divergent the views are.

We really don’t know the details here, and I think that’s key. There are scenarios where charging a homeowner make sense. Like you see an intruder with a knife. You whack them with a bat. And you knock them to the ground. And then you just…keep doing it. The guy is literally on the ground, skull half caved in, just begging you to call a fucking ambulance, completely at your mercy…and you’re still whacking him. Force can easily escalate well past what is needed for any reasonable level of self defense. Just because someone breaks into your home does not give you legal permission to torture them or murder them in cold blood. Maybe the homeowner tied the intruder up and literally tortured him.

A prosecutor knows how unpopular prosecuting a homeowner for attacking a break-in victim would be. It would be an obvious political lightning rod. I’m inclined to believe that if they’re willing to go to all that trouble, the homeowner likely did something that went well beyond what any jury would consider reasonable self defense. This is the kind of case you do not as a prosecutor make unless you can be damn sure you’re getting a conviction.

We just don’t know enough yet. Like, did he cut off his fingers after knocking him out? Did the invader and invaded know each other? I hope more details are shared soon because I imagine most of us are going to side with the invaded here.

Americans also don’t see a problem with cops shooting people for simply running away

I definitely have a problem with that.

You break into a house, threaten the people inside, you get what you deserve. If they break your bones or end your life, THAT is the risk YOU take. Fuck this holding the VICTIM responsible. Not much I like from US law, but stand your ground and castle doctrine really ring true for me after being home invaded, robbed, and beaten by 3 invaders. What did the cops do? fuck all. Next fucker breaks intro my house will be dealing with trauma for the rest of their lives.

edit: Thank you to all who up AND down voted, and engaged in conversation, I appreciate it, and it was cathartic. I won’t be responding to any more of this post as I have said all I will on this. Remember to not get too mad at dissenting opinions and try to have a great day.

fair, many of the people might, but the prevailing culture is one that doesn’t really value human life, especially criminals (even suspected ones).

It definitely does feel like human life is not valued as much as it should be, can certainly agree there.

Especially here in the USA I get the feeling that we’re all just widgets in the grand machination of Capitalism destroying our world. I wish there was more we all could do but the people in power who could help seem intent to burn it all down at this point.

Yeah and to be fair it’s not like Canada is much better, but in cases like this one I don’t find it ridiculous that the appropriate use of force is investigated.

I’m sure this person won’t ultimately end up in jail (the same people in arms over this would also be the first to point out how “lenient” our criminal justice system is…), and if the facts of the matter do show unnecessary force or cruelty (like stabbing an unconscious person) then I feel that it would be justified.

Anyway, I didn’t mean to paint you with a broad brush I know the average American I interact with is more like me than not, but I’m grateful for the slightly higher valuing of human life here

I hear my back door kicked in at 3 in the morning, I put on my glasses and load my pistol. My bedroom door opens, there’s a man with a knife. I fire one round. That round pierces his heart and he dies on the spot. Justifiable force.

Instead, I fired two or three rounds in quick succession, because one round might miss or fail to stop him. Very likely justifiable force. Like any person wouldn’t pull the trigger a couple times in that scenario, right?

Instead, I fire one round. It hits him in the chest and does serious damage to one lung. He drops the knife, staggers into my living room and collapses. If I shoot him again to finish him in that state, that’s murder.

I recommend against breaking into houses on this continent.

Yea in Canada we’d just prefer if nobody was shot dead. /s