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OK, I understand. Thanks for the clarifications.

"If I swapped you out for someone else. Just an everyday person- given the same information would they act in the same manner as you or believe your actions are justified?" How does that have any basis in law? Doesn't this entire idea go agaisnt the principal of innocent untill proven guilty...

Thanks for the response. But you have to agree that all of that is unwritten? Right? The law does not say that, it allows a judge more then enough room to say that fits within the lose confines of that law. Quoting: 88. (1) Every person commits an offence who carries or possesses a weapon, an...

@George Wallace: For me this has mostly turned into an interesting academic discussion. Which is not to say that there is not a utilitarian reason. I like knives, all kinds of knives. And I plan on collecting a little bit and using a lot on my property (there are a lot of of uses for knives on...

So, I might just not be thinking straight. It is possible I missed something, or something that significantly effects the law regarding self defence or weapons is in another section entirely. But it really seems to me that the police enforcement of their law is unrecognisable from the letter of...

I have read up on everything in the self and property defence sections. In general you are allowed to defend yourself, to the extent that you have to. And unless it is covered in anouther setion, the law does not even come close to banning you from carrying around weapons to defend yourself...

OK, I browsed it for all pertinent information, all relevent quotes are included below post. First off, while the document uses “restricted weapon” a lot, it never defines what it means by that. Specifically this is the only definition it gives: So a restricted weapon is a any weapon that is...

I had a read through the laws a little, but they are hard to understand. Laws are nto designed to be read or understood by the average person. One question, as I am reading through it. What do they mean when they say "Former Prohibited", as in It is saying that these are not prohibited any...

"Self defense isn't a lawful purpose- so a sword to cut seat belts would be confiscated." Well this is what confuses me. It implies that cutting seat belts is self defence. Also, "lawful purpose" does not seem to imply "necessary" or "utilitarian". The law seems to say that I could carry...

Really, so if you have a justifiable reason to expect you need to defend yourself then self defence is a justifiable reason? I thought the reasoning went that, Canadians are simply never allowed concealed weapons, and if a knife is for self defence it is a weapon; Therefore self defence is never...

I had read the entire thread, though it is possibly I missed something. I saw Container's very next post where he expanded on that statement. Still the focus was on the body, inside and outside of your clothes. I was wondering what people with experience though carrying it around in a...

I cannot figure out what that phrase is supposed to mean. If I have broken some unwriten code fo conduct, I am sorry. I though resurrecting an old thread to ask for clarification would be better than starting a brand new one.

So what about backpacks or bags? Is that considered concealed? Or is that transporting instead of carrying and allowed? As an aside, how is cutting seat belts considered self defence? And when you say self defene, you mean against anything that could harm you (animals, seat belts, etc)? Also...