A Canadian man and his family were attacked in their own home, but Alberta is standing up to the federal government and saying, "Your homes are our castles." While the feds are busy trying to confiscate your guns, Alberta is stepping up to protect you and your family.
00:00:00.000After sharing the video online, the Nguyen family says several others have shared video of similar experiences with suspects that match the same description.
00:00:09.040Police are still on the hunt for the suspects.
00:00:11.480Now that right there is exactly the kind of situation why we need Castle Laws here in Canada.
00:00:17.140Well, if you don't want to get shot or beaten up, don't break into people's houses.
00:00:30.000Today we're diving into a story out of Calgary, Alberta's biggest city, that's going to get you thinking.
00:00:35.120We got a local man and his family attacked right in their own home after a simple online transaction through Facebook Marketplace turned into a nightmare.
00:02:42.640They're telling provincial entities and all those in charge to ignore federal gun grabs and let people defend their homes.
00:02:50.720It's a bit of a good old-fashioned common sense move for a change.
00:02:55.460If you want to keep your family safe, we're not going to let Ottawa stand in your way.
00:03:00.620The province is introducing a motion it says will protect law-abiding gun owners.
00:03:04.420It says if passed, it will direct provincial authorities to decline to enforce Ottawa's gun buyback program.
00:03:11.800It will also direct Crown prosecutors to refrain from prosecuting people who acted in self-defense to protect themselves or their families.
00:03:19.400The new motion will be under the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act.
00:03:23.720Justice Minister Mickey Amory says Albertans should be able to feel safe in their homes.
00:03:28.420If somebody tries to come into my home and I have young children, the Crown should be considering that as a factor in determining whether or not the response was reasonable.
00:03:50.440They're making it clear that your home is your castle, and they're putting their responsibility right where it belongs, on the criminals, not on law-abiding folks.
00:04:02.340This is the first I've ever experienced something like this.
00:04:05.620Newlywed Jason Nguyen regularly builds, refurbishes, and sells laptops online.
00:04:11.180Over the weekend, he posted an ad for a gaming laptop for sale and got interested buyers right away.
00:04:16.960I want them to feel comfortable with purchasing such an expensive laptop.
00:04:49.040I just grabbed on to whatever I could grab on at the time, and it was the perpetrator, the person that sprayed me.
00:04:56.300And at that time, he went for the laptop, and then the other individual just went out the door right away.
00:05:04.760Because I held on to that guy, he dropped the laptop.
00:05:07.780Because of the bear spray, I can't see anything, and the smell is so strong.
00:05:12.440So I follow him outside, and I see my husband is being dragged outside, and then I just see the struggle.
00:05:20.920Once outside, one perpetrator re-enters the house to retrieve his phone that was dropped in the scuffle.
00:05:26.800When he re-entered our home the second time, that's when I attacked him.
00:05:31.120My wife went in first, and she grabbed a hold of him, and I didn't want anything to happen to her, so I started attacking him right away.
00:05:38.780I hit him in the head, and I punched him.
00:05:41.640I brought him to the ground, and then my wife, she brought in a shovel.
00:05:45.720I took the handle, and I started hitting him with the shovel.
00:05:49.300Same thing for law-abiding gun owners.
00:05:51.100They bought their guns legally in good faith, and the last thing we want our policing resources or our Crown prosecutors doing is wasting their time going after law-abiding citizens.
00:06:01.460Let's go after the bad guys there, too.
00:06:02.780We've got plenty of gangs and organized crime, and people who are up to no good.
00:06:07.020That's where policing and our prosecution priority should be.
00:06:10.600And so we passed a motion in the legislature to affirm that.
00:06:14.780And it is one of the things, one of the powers that we have as a province that, yes, the federal government can put forward criminal code sanctions as part of their constitutional jurisdiction.
00:06:25.660Well, we're responsible for administration of justice and policing, and so we can exercise our jurisdiction by declining to make that a priority for policing or prosecution.
00:06:34.840Okay, so as we wrap this up, let me ask you, should we be letting the federal government disarm law-abiding citizens while criminals roam free, or should we be backing provinces like Alberta that stand up and say we're putting families and their well-being first?
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