Jensen La Vende

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge is ad­vis­ing con­stituents and cit­i­zens that dur­ing a home in­va­sion, they can shoot first and “ex­plain your­self af­ter.” He says that pro­vi­sion, among oth­ers, will be avail­able un­der the pro­posed stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing to en­act. He says an­oth­er mea­sure would al­low a vic­tim to de­fend them­selves against an in­trud­er be­fore they are even phys­i­cal­ly at­tacked.

Sturge made the stun­ning com­ments dur­ing a stand-your-ground con­sul­ta­tion at the San­gre Grande Civic Cen­tre on Tues­day.