Townsville bureau
With violent home invasions becoming an almost daily event across Australia more and more residents have become prisoners in their own home terrified of criminals breaking in, assaulting them, seizing car keys and money, then driving off in the family car.
The largest petition ever presented to the Queensland Parliament containing 124,522 signatures has called upon the ruling Liberal Party to introduce amendments to criminal law allowing home owners to defend themselves by any means necessary if attacked or threatened by home invaders.
The amendments prevent legal ramifications for a home owner as opposed to the present legislation which allows police to charge a defender with assault or even murder should they belt an intruder.
The Petitioner is state member for Traeger Robbie Katter who has had unprecedented support from around the nation for allowing home owners to protect their castle without legal implications.
Meanwhile the response from Liberal leader and Premier David Crisafulli, a former Ingham cane farmer has been typically lukewarm similar to Labor whose policies have led to the massive increase in serious crime in the state.
Crisafulli won’t support home owners defending themselves from these regular, vicious home invasions and as Robbie Katter says, “police can’t park outside my house all night waiting for a home invasion”.
The Liberal Premier’s personal ideological stance undoubtedly would be to change the law but as we have seen with the KAP Crocodile Control bill coming before parliament this week he will oppose it too because it emanated from Katters Australian Party and did not come from the Liberal Party.
Home owners are first responders and at common law do have every right to defend themselves by any means in the event of a home invasion, which historically is their castle which even the King cannot enter without permission.
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Political party statutes and socialist ideological dogma emanating from academia and Admiralty courts does not hold sway over ancient common law and its precedents.
The United States has the right of home and personal protection enshrined in its Constitution and in many states home residents have been given citations for shooting an intruder. But then the US has a Second Amendment which we, as such, do not.
Majority demands from the public, ie voters, play no part in uniparty politics. ‘Democracy’ in Australia is only ever allowed for voters for five minutes on polling days. After the election parties and their media cohorts then falsely claim they have a ‘mandate’ to do as they please for the next three or four years whichever the term may be.
Irrespective of Dicey’s dictates, ever since the signing of Magna Carta, the people are supreme, not the parliament.
The nonsense peddled by the Queensland Law Society and some police that home invaders would be chased down the street with a shotgun is pure fantasy.
The Law Society should know the true position since their members have been engaging numerous clients after police have been checking gun storage facilities at every licenced and many unlicenced gun owners’ homes across the state.
Firearms are not easily available on hand to stick up a criminal’s nose. They are stored away under lock and key and few occupants would have time to use one against an armed invader, which has been the case on most occasions.
Few guns if any have been used by occupants, but criminals have been using them as recently as last year in Townsville when home invaders stole two cars from a residence in Townsville at gun point and another near Ipswich where a shot was fired into a kitchen, missing the residents and hitting a wall clock. A car was then stolen after a physical altercation with the armed intruder.
The Ipswich residents reportedly were licenced firearm owners.
Katters Australian Party has urged Queensland residents to contact their local state member of parliament and demand they support Castle Law.
