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captain morgan said:
That's the way to do it.. Has been since the dawn of time
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Unfortunately, the police cannot do anything to address these problems. Until a solution is found, it will be up to people living in rural areas to look after things themselves. Events like that do not happen often, but it must be clearly understood that they do occur.

It's an old expression, but better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
 
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Legality of self-defence


The issue of the legality of self-defence with a firearm in Canada has been the subject of controversy. While self-defence is legal, it is very restricted. The Criminal Code recognizes self-defence with a firearm. The Firearms Act provides a legal framework wherein an individual may acquire, possess and carry a restricted or (a specific class of) prohibited firearm for protection from other individuals when police protection is deemed insufficient.[37] This situation is extremely rare: the (publicly available version of the) RCMP authorization to carry application[38] refers only to protection of life during employment that involves handling of valuable goods or dangerous wildlife.[39]
While self-defence is rarely considered a legal reason for attaining a PAL, the use of force with a firearm is legal as long as the accused can prove that his or her life was in danger. Sections 34 and 35 of the Criminal Code provide the legal framework of the use of force against intruders.[40]
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DaSleeper said:
Man, why do you keep biting?
On the same old stale bait he throws out.....you're do damn easy to bait ......He can't even be original......as bad as cliffy and his stale Facebook memes....
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He needs a bitch slap once in awhile! :lol:
 
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Cannuck just needs a little love. And a pacifier. :lol:



I wonder if Cannuck was a cute baby?
 
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captain morgan said:
Absolutely for sure.

Hell, i think that the 911 operator advises that as the call has been made, just sit back, crack a beer and the RCs will be onsite inside of 45 seconds
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:) Growing up, we never considered the police as a viable option. they got phoned, but whether it was vandalism, damage from an accident or other things, the community did what needed to be done and when the cops showed up, we told them what happened.

I have never seen them called for a murder, but lots of assaults. This is how it always panned out. Someone would beat the hell out of another. After, the injuries were tended. The person who committed the assault was picked up later at his house.

There were always enough people around that should something especially bad happen, a group of guys would have taken care of business and handed the perp over to the cops when they showed up.

No one ever got into trouble because they failed to wait for the police.
 
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If he made them, it would calm his nerves, and stop the voices in his head.

I'm sure we'll hear from him shortly.
 
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There is a half a good news story, thoughts are the one that shot is the one running around in the stolen truck, how the arrested got detained is not clear as well.

One man charged after gun fired during rural break-in near Spiritwood

A 28-year-old from Big River First Nation is facing several charges—including unauthorized possession of a firearm, break and enter and theft of a motor vehicle—after an alleged break-in at a rural property near Spiritwood, Sask.
Spiritwood RCMP said officers responded to a break-in around 12:30 a.m. CST Tuesday morning.
Police said a firearm was discharged during the incident. The 28-year-old man in custody is not the person who fired the gun.
No injuries have been reported to police.
A white 2017 Ford F350 dually truck with the license plate 995 FTF is still missing.
Police said they have not located this vehicle and the public is being asked to stay away from the truck and instead report it to police if they see it.
RCMP would not clarify who discharged the firearm or if there are any other suspects.
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Should start a pool on how long the sentence will be, if it will be dealt with in court, or sentencing circle. Jail, house arrest, or positive community watch.
 
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JLM said:
Pretty predictable isn't he? :lol:
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.. And just like clockwork, he appears.

Why is he stalking you JLM?

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There is a half a good news story, thoughts are the one that shot is the one running around in the stolen truck, how the arrested got detained is not clear as well.

One man charged after gun fired during rural break-in near Spiritwood



Should start a pool on how long the sentence will be, if it will be dealt with in court, or sentencing circle. Jail, house arrest, or positive community watch.
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I suspect that there will be a cash settlement to the perp for racism or such
 
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No appeal in Tina Fontaine case: Crown

WINNIPEG - The Crown will not appeal the acquittal of a man who was accused of killing 15-year-old Tina Fontaine and dumping her body in a Winnipeg river.

Prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday that only errors in law can be appealed when someone is found not guilty.
"After a critical review ... by the Manitoba Prosecution Service's appeal unit and the Crown attorneys who prosecuted the case, it has been determined there are no grounds to base a successful appeal." A jury found Raymond Cormier not guilty last month of second-degree murder in the Indigenous girl's death.
Her body, wrapped in a duvet cover and weighed down by rocks, was pulled from the Red River eight days after she disappeared in 2014.
Tina was raised by her great-aunt, Thelma Favel, on the Sagkeeng First Nation, 120 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.
Favel said the decision not to appeal made her feel as awful as the day they found the girl's body.
"It rips everything out of me, and I just fall every time I get some bad news, and then I have to struggle to try something new,” Favel told CTV News.
"(It’s like) they don't care, like she's a nobody, like she didn't even exist, like they don't even want to know the way she was killed. It hurts. It hurts so bad right now.”
Favel said she’s been receiving supportive phone calls from family and community members and plans to speak with chiefs and lawyers in the coming days.
"Tina wouldn’t give up and I’m not going to either."
Grand Chief Sheila North, who represents First Nations communities in northern Manitoba, said the lack of an appeal is just another example of how the justice system failed Tina Fontaine and her family.
"It just leaves another gaping hole in the hearts of ... Indigenous people," she said.
Chief Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations spoke of the need to overhaul the legal system.
"We know for a fact that a young girl had her life brutally taken from her and a killer roams free. There is no justice here," he said.
"This is why we want a full review of the legal system, from policing right through to the courts, to create an approach that truly delivers justice for our people."
In February, a jury found Raymond Cormier not guilty of second-degree murder in connection with the death of Tina Fontaine, whose body was found on August 17, 2014. The death shocked the country and led to calls for justice and for a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
The teen left to visit her mother in Winnipeg at the end of June 2014 and became an exploited youth in the months before she died.
Tina ran away repeatedly from a youth shelter and hotels in Winnipeg where she was placed.
She was last seen leaving a downtown hotel, where she told a private contract worker employed by child welfare that she was going to a shopping centre to meet friends.
The jury heard how Tina and her boyfriend met the much-older Cormier that summer. The jury heard Cormier gave the couple a place to stay and gave them drugs.
Witnesses testified that Cormier had a duvet cover similar to the one Tina was wrapped in.
Cormier was also recorded on tape during a police undercover sting telling a woman that he would make a bet that Tina was killed because he had sex with her and then "I found out she was 15 years old.''
There was no DNA evidence linking Cormier to the teen and doctors who were called to testify said they could not definitively say how she died.
The defence argued that the Crown couldn't prove that Tina didn't die from a drug overdose or naturally.
Defence lawyer Anthony Kavanagh said Tuesday the acquittal was the right decision.
"The diverse and extremely representative jury did their job honourably," Kavanagh wrote in a text message.
"Simply put, evidence — not emotion — is required for a conviction and despite the human desire to find a convenient scapegoat, justice was done here."
The acquittal sparked rallies of protest and support for Tina's family in cities across the country.
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