‘Muddled thinking’
Dear Editor:
RE: ‘I’m glad you shot the guy’: Doug Ford, March 26.
Premier Doug Ford’s ill-considered, uninformed comments suggesting that a homeowner who wounded an intruder should have taken it upon himself to become a judge, jury and executioner are outrageous.
The suggestion that the majority of people in Ontario share this opinion is an insult to our collective intelligence. The defence of self-defence allows the use of reasonable force. Ford’s suggestion that someone who has successfully defended themself should then impose the penalty of wounding or death on their alleged attacker is appalling and a sad commentary on the muddled thinking of our premier.
Had the homeowner taken Doug’s advice to shoot his attacker a couple more times, he would have had a dead body in his home, been charged with murder, had to live with having killed someone. His assailant would be a murder victim, and not in custody facing a long sentence, while being questioned about the other alleged attackers.
It would be nice if there were simple answers to the problems of crime, but there aren’t. Pretending there are is useless at best and likely dangerous.
David Strang,
Fergus