Came across this petition to the QLD State Parliament:

https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/Petition-Details?id=4077&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR18l5EClb5gvNnegW7VLg8lXNFazrIwh17AHFjqswsI5l6sPQKXxNT-uJA_aem_AbEOs0teE0XoaUN0hQqrTgcjeLZr0s0S2QXBM9NWNosEIw4w3oNeFl93YieF0ZqypJc7HVbX-stIA-z5PZrZPsSj

Basically, what they want is the right to use whatever force they want upon home invaders without consequence. This feels like a real step backwards in terms of civility and I’m not really aware of any cases (there aren’t any mentioned in the petition at least) where someone has been prosecuted for using “disproportionate” force on an invader.

I’m not saying I’m complicit with crime and it’s important that we all get to feel safe in our own homes, I think that’s a fundamental right. But I don’t like the idea of everyone being the law. It shouldn’t be legal for someone to shoot at me or attack me if I enter their property by mistake or want to meet my neighbours.

The MP putting this forward is a member of Katter’s Australian Party, but it just seems like a good distraction to get dumb voters to vote LNP because the news disproportionately covers crime in Queensland while statistics show that the crime rate is decreasing and research and “common sense” shows that addressing the root problems is a more effective strategy. Something which the LNP will absolutely fail to do as they completely fail to recognise the problem.

But worst of all probably is that they try to relate this to cinematic masterpiece “The Castle” when it really has nothing to do with the film at all and more to do with mediaeval practices.