Remdies for Bugs & Bears
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WyoTraveler wrote:
Very interesting about Canadian law. Are you saying in Canada you are not allowed to defend yourself against an attacker? Just have to accept attack and file a report?
There is an entirely different way of thinking up here. I will not say I agree or disagree with this, but the logic is:
The big difference up here is weapon related offences are much lower than in the USA (somewhere around 1:1000 ratio in Canada vs USA). Thus the first assumption by the law is that you do not need to defend yourself against something that will virtually never happen. The second assumption, is because virtually no one has guns or other weapons as they are restricted and only used for hunting, no one is shooting each other, thus no need to have a gun or weapon to defend against people who also don't have guns or weapons. The third assumption is that is the police's job to shoot/taser/pepper spray/handcuff people. If you call them in a situation they will determine if a bullet is the necessary answer.
I guess what it comes down to is unless you are in the drug neighborhoods of Toronto or Vancouver, you will likely never see or know anyone in your entire life who has been involved in any type of weapon related incident.
Do I agree with this logic? Not sure... your system has some advantages ie ability to protect yourself it something does happen. Our system has the advantage that you simply do not need to protect yourself. As I mentioned before, up here you have to be far more worried about being mugged by a bear than a punk and even that is very low.
