Ontario Premier Doug Ford said a homeowner in Vaughan should have shot the men who invaded his home a few more times. Ford was reacting to the latest home invasion story in the GTA during a news conference on Wednesday morning.
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Doug Ford praises homeowner who shot man during home invasion: ‘These guys, they need to be shot’
Premier Doug Ford has applauded the Vaughan homeowner who shot one of four masked intruders breaking into his home early Tuesday morning, saying more people need to defend themselves with guns.
“Congratulations for shooting this guy — should have shot him a couple more times, as far as I’m concerned,” said Ford, responding to a reporter’s question Wednesday during an appearance in Kenilworth, in southwestern Ontario.
“These guys, they need to be shot,” he said.
Conservatives introduce ‘Stand on Guard Act’ to change self-defence law
TORONTO — Conservative MPs introduced a private member’s bill Thursday aimed at strengthening legal protections for Canadians who use force against intruders inside their homes.
The proposed legislation, titled the Stand on Guard Act, would amend Section 34 of the Criminal Code to presume that force used against a person who knowingly and unlawfully enters a home is justified unless evidence proves otherwise.
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The Innocent Bystanders Caught in Deadly Crossfire of Self-Defense Shootings
Kenneth Santana-Rodriguez brought along his 9mm handgun on a pedicure date with a woman at “A Touch of Beauty” nail salon in Holyoke, Mass.
They were sitting side by side when the father of the woman’s child burst into the salon, demanding to know the nature of their relationship. Santana-Rodriguez told police the man raised his shirt to reveal a firearm and said, You know what’s about to happen.
Santana-Rodriguez pulled out his 9mm and shot twice. “It was him or me,” he told police. Yet he missed his intended target, Irvin Sanchez. One bullet instead struck the chest of an employee who had been working on the woman’s toenails, killing Trung “Michael” Tran, 33 years old. Prosecutors filed a charge of first-degree murder against Santana-Rodriguez.
LILLEY: Danielle Smith on target, moves to strengthen self-defence laws
Once again, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is right on target, moving to strengthen self-defence protections and push back against Ottawa’s gun policies — promising new guidance for police and prosecutors on when charges should, and shouldn’t, be laid. While Smith’s agreement with Prime Minister Mark Carney saw some criticism at her weekend United Conservative Party conference, her statements on defending your home and family drew wild applause.
Six Words Every Killer Should Know: ‘I Feared for My Life, Officer’
The number of legally sanctioned homicides has grown substantially in states with expanded self-defense rights under stand-your-ground laws
It’s easier than ever to kill someone in America and get away with it.
In 30 states, it often requires only a claim you killed while protecting yourself or others.
While Americans have long been free to use deadly force to defend themselves at home, so-called stand-your-ground laws in those 30 states extend legal protections to public places and make it difficult for prosecutors to file homicide charges against anyone who says they killed in self-defense.
The number of legally sanctioned homicides by civilians in the 30 stand-your-ground states has risen substantially in recent years, The Wall Street Journal found in an analysis of data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Self-defence deters criminals more than complying
In Canada, if people can’t successfully “hide” from criminals, police officials are advising crime victims to “comply” with a criminal’s demands. Jim MacSween, the chief of York Regional Police since 2020 who oversees 1.2 million residents living in York Region, warned residents not to attempt to confront intruders but to comply with the criminal until law enforcement arrives.
LILLEY: Castle law already exists in Canada, self-defence is legal
We’ve been having a debate about self-defence and castle laws in Canada over the past few months. Some are saying we need to pass castle law legislation while others say that’s not the Canadian way.
Not the Canadian way? Who made that BS Up?
Families terrorized as politicians look the other way
A young woman is kidnapped in Ontario. Her family’s home is stormed, and her father is shot. Police say the suspects staged a car crash, forced her into a van, tied her up, and within an hour were breaking into her family’s house while armed. Four people were arrested, including two teenagers. One was just 12 years old, already out on bail, and he is the one police allege pulled the trigger. Another suspect escaped.
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When it comes to home invasions, the law can get complicated
I don’t sleep with a pistol under my pillow. But I do have a properly stored shotgun on the premises.
If you invade my home, if you are posing an imminent threat to me or my loved ones, I will probably shoot you.
And if I can’t get to the shotgun and the cartridges under the circumstances, I’ve got a baseball bat close to hand.
GTA police chief walks back ‘guidance’ telling citizens to comply with armed intruders
York Region Police Chief Jim MacSween sought to walk back the controversial “guidance” he issued in the wake of a recent surge in violent home invasions, including the murder of 49-year-old Abdul Aleem Farooqi on Friday.
In a statement, MacSween extended condolences to Farooqi’s family and acknowledged the anger sparked by his earlier remarks.
Poilievre’s anything goes approach to self-defence is even more extreme than U.S. law
“Your home is your castle.” That was Pierre Poilievre last Friday, calling for changes to the Criminal Code making it legal for people at home to use whatever force they like against an intruder. The Conservatives have a private member’s bill coming to that effect, to be called, inevitably, the Stand On Guard Act.
The bill is in hot pursuit of the recent charging of an Ontario man for allegedly stabbing a crossbow-wielding intruder half to death. As explained in a recent column, current Canadian law – passed by the Harper Conservatives – allows for the use of force in self-defence so far as it is “reasonable in the circumstances,” the burden of proof being on the Crown to prove that it was unreasonable.
Geoff Russ: Yes Liberals, Canada is pretty much the Wild West today
Last Sunday, 46-year-old Abdul Aleem Farooqi was shot to death in his Vaughan home just after midnight. The shooter was part of a band of armed, masked intruders seeking to rob the house.
Farooqi was protecting his family when he died, and his children are now left without a father, and his wife without a husband.
On the same day in Welland, 25-year-old Daniel Senecal is alleged to have broken into another home and sexually abused a toddler while the parents slept. He was known to the police.
WARMINGTON: Top cop wants public to ‘comply’ with thugs during home invasions
Just “hide and comply” and maybe the armed intruders invading your house will not hurt you or your family.
That’s York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween’s recommendation to the public following the gutless murder of 46-year-old dad, Abdul Aleem Farooqi.
Is it routine for the police to arrive during a home invasion or other types of criminal assault?
Or is this another instance of “We’re the OPP trust us.”
I believe it makes sense to comply until it doesn’t and it’s your call when it “doesn’t”.
The state places its monopoly on violence above your life. We’re just collateral damage.
Jamie Sarkonak: Poilievre’s self-defence plan doesn’t go far enough
On Friday, Pierre Poilievre said he would change Canada’s self-defence laws so that “the use of force, including lethal force, is presumed reasonable against an individual who unlawfully enters a house and poses a threat to the safety of anyone inside.” It’s a reform that would nudge the needle to favour victims, but it probably wouldn’t change much.
Right now, the law of self-defence in Canada will absolve self-defenders who reasonably believe that force or the threat of force is being made against them, and who take defensive action that is found to be “reasonable in the circumstances.” This would include break-in victims.