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| Canadastan Video: Victim Charged After Molotov Cocktail Attack |
| 2011-01-22 |
| "I hear some people, some being police officers, some being Crown attorneys, some being ordinary people, say we don't want vigilantism, to which I can only give an emphatic pardon me?" Mr. Burlew said. "When you're under attack, it's not a vigilante act. Vigilantism talks about vengeance and retribution. This is about saving your life and saving your property. "I'm sure that will be recognized at trial, but why would a citizen, where it's so obvious that what he was doing was protecting himself during a continued attack, be put to the expense of a trial? It's demeaning." Canada allows people to claim self-defence for using force, including guns, to protect their life as long as the force is reasonable and they believe they have no other options. "If the public are wondering can you run out of your house and [fire a handgun at an intruder], the bottom line is, according to the laws of Canada, no, you can't," said Constable Nilan Dave of the Niagara Regional Police Service, which charged Mr. Thomson. "That's why the courts are there, to give a person an opportunity to explain their actions." |
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