Thread: Castle Law

I think every state and territory allows reasonable force to be used defending property and wellbeing.
Letting go with both barrels of a shotgun does not seem reasonable on a teen making off with a garden gnome.
A particular group of the political spectrum use law and order as a scare tactic.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Letting go with both barrels of a shotgun does not seem reasonable on a teen making off with a garden gnome.

Not reasonable at all. One barrel should suffice. Depends what shot, too.

If ever there was a garden gnome on my property, I'd be slipping some spondulicks to a teen, to steal it.

Originally Posted by Saitch

Not reasonable at all. One barrel should suffice. Depends what shot, too.

SGs?

Originally Posted by Saitch

If ever there was a garden gnome on my property, I'd be slipping some spondulicks to a teen, to steal it.

I'd use the shottie on the gnome, personally.

Poor gnomes

Reasonable force is open to interpretation by the law what I or someone else thinks is reasonable the law could say was excessive and of to court you go for defending your home.

Originally Posted by laney

Reasonable force is open to interpretation by the law what I or someone else thinks is reasonable the law could say was excessive and of to court you go for defending your home.

No. Off to court you go for assault.

Originally Posted by laney

So Victoria and Queensland have considered Castle Law why just talk about it bring it in give residents of a home the power to defend their wellbeing and the other occupants of the home and their property without the law hanging over their heads we should be able to defend our homes with whatever force we deem necessary with no come back from the law or the intruder.

If someone breaks into my house when my wife and kids are in the house. Do you think I'd care about laws I wouldn't even ring the police most likely. Ambulance, that is what I'd ring .... they will scrape them up off the floor and remove them for me.

My wife did hear a couple a guys walking down our drive one night a few years back... they were trying to get into the cars and shed. Weirdly enough, they never came back. I did try to greet them... I headed upside, jumped in the ****box and slammed it into low range .... The ****box sure does sound loud and angry firing to life in the middle of the night and going full throttle across the side paddock beside the house. I had no idea people could get through a barbed wire fence at full sprint without tangling themselves up .... But it appears they sure can (weird right? I still don't know how they managed it).

Anyhow, like the police say, "just leave your keys at the door so they can break in and find them without searching the house" ..... sure, that makes complete sense.

Brings to mind the old saying " a man's gnome is his castle".