You Will Shoot Your Eye Out

The government likes it that way. Coroner reveals new details after 20-year-old intruder shot dead in Melbourne home invasion

A man is at home with his heavily, pregnant partner. Three men, armed with axes break in. They assault the pregnant woman. At least one of the three has a firearm. The homeowner wrestles the firearm away from the bad guy, and in the course of the fight said bad guy is shot in the chest, and dies of his wounds.

The cops arrest the homeowner, because you are not allowed to defend yourself in Australia. The law actually says that you are allowed, but you must use proportional response, and somehow, shooting a bad guy, with his own gun, after he and his buddies have attacked your pregnant girlfriend, is not proportional enough for the powers that be, Down Under.

And the pregnant woman was struck in the leg with an ax.

The homeowner was initially charged with murder in relation to the incident “however the prosecution did not progress due to the opinion of prosecutors that there were no reasonable prospects of a conviction,” according to Spanos’ findings.

Justice? Why would they worry about Justice?

Since law and order seem to be deteriorating in Australia, some of the states are trying to return some measure of self-defense. I don’t expect it to come to much. (They’re too “civilized” for that kind of thing.)

There is a push, however, to introduce laws to increase the rights of homeowners. The push is, in part, due to an increase in the number of home invasions in Victoria, driven in large part by young, recidivist offenders.

 

The demand for an overhaul of self-defence laws in Victoria is being led by Libertarian MP David Limbrick.

The law abiding are more than disarmed. They are forbidden, in any practical sense, from defending themselves.