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It's good advice. Losing a car is much less worse than personal injury or worse. Everybody's a toughguy until a methhead who can't feel pain stabs you 15 times. Should the police crack down? Sure, but they aren't magicians, crime isn't gonna magically dissolve tomorrow. In the mean time, keep yourself safe by not inviting harm.

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This attitude is exactly the problem. It only takes a small fraction of people to fight the meth head for the meth head to choose a different crime.

It's like the "we don't pay ransoms" logic only the math is infinitely more favorable to victims.

I'm living in a third-world country and I think this is madness. It's unimaginable here, to be afraid of "methheads" so much and giving up on your own property. I never saw "methhead" in my life, but I sure would do my best to protect my valuable property. May be I need to work more to buy a car, compared to average Canadian, I don't know.

Yeah Canadian government is crazy. They made drugs legal, and they also let criminals go after they get caught.

When you defend yourself you don't just defend yourself, but every other victim that would come after you.

To some extend, a criminal with nothing to lose don't necessarily stop just because they get caught.

And for most of us, any risk to health or wellbeing isn't worth taking. You have something to lose the desperate criminal drug addict might not.

Granted, hardening your property against burglary is pretty low risk. There is no reason not to have 3 point doors and windows.

Just don't harden it so much that a determined firefighter can't get in :)

Yeah and you can probably get insurance against theft right?

It becomes unaffordable pretty quickly for a lot of people when such theft becomes endemic.

Yep, just ask Kia owners as a recent example.

If the culture was "if a methhead tries to stab you, you can and should use any force necessary to stop them" that might be different

But no, the culture in Canada is "Check your privilege and let the poor methhead stab you"

No joke, people in Canada genuinely do not think they can or should use force to protect themselves from dangerous threats

With all due respect you are quite incorrect.

Most people think and do use for to protect themselves from threats like all humans.

The issue was bringing the US style castle doctrine defence argument where some folks feel that since the intruder is trespassing they have carte blanche to murder them.

This is a complete mischaracterization of the Castle Doctrine. It simply means you have no duty to retreat when attacked in your own home. Using disproportionate force is still some flavor of illegal homicide.

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