Bill of Rights for Australia - What is your list of rights

[ufo_investigations]

Australia is the only western country without a Bill of Rights. Odd isn't it.

We need an entrenched Bill of Rights. It can be entrenched or unentrenched. Entrenched is better because it can't easily be repealed at will without a referendum.  I would prefer entrenched with a 90% vote required to change any aspect of it.

England has had once since 1689

New Zealand since 1990

United States since 1791

Canada since 1960

European Union since 2000

I think it is about time we have one!

Tell me what rights should we have as a people?

Please make a list, like the U.S. 1st amendment etc...

[*crikey*mate*]

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

These following countries below allow their citizens to carry a concealed handgun for self-defense (not an exhaustive list). They don't have murders and killings like you describe and false claims etc.

Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Italy, France, Latvia, Luthuania, Moldova, Serbia

In these countries the laws vary, in some you have to be 21-years-old and pass a police record check, and you have to do a safety training course before being licensed plus have to pass a psychological test. In others you just need permission from the authorities and even that varies too.

I'm not that religious but in the bible it says:

In the Old Testament, we find this example of God sanctioning self-defense:

    "If a thief is caught in the act of breaking into a house and is struck and killed in the process, the person who killed the thief is not guilty of murder." (Exodus 22:2)

Weapons were used in the Bible for the purpose of self-defense; nowhere in scripture is this forbidden.

In the New Testament, Jesus sanctioned the use of weapons for self-defense. While giving his farewell discourse to the disciples before going to the cross, he instructed the apostles to purchase side arms to carry for self-protection.

Are you saying because Australia was used as penal colony for the British, Australians can't be trusted with a gun? We're all convicts? Is that it?

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My best friend is German, his family still live there and he visits often.

I just put forth your thoughts on home invasion and self defence and I asked if you shoot the intruder, could you be arrested and charged.

He responded "lougish"(sp) which means "of course"

They do not have the immunity from prosecution that you seem to think tyhey do. They still have to justify that the amount of force used was reasonable in court.

None of his family (to his knowledge) own any firearms, he said it's not very common to do so.

He was boarding a plane interstate,so didn't get the chance to go into it in too much depth and I won't see him again until the weekend, but would there be any other questions you'd like me to ask him when I see him?

[ufo_investigations]

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@diamond-halo wrote:

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

These following countries below allow their citizens to carry a concealed handgun for self-defense (not an exhaustive list). They don't have murders and killings like you describe and false claims etc.

Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Italy, France, Latvia, Luthuania, Moldova, Serbia

In these countries the laws vary, in some you have to be 21-years-old and pass a police record check, and you have to do a safety training course before being licensed plus have to pass a psychological test. In others you just need permission from the authorities and even that varies too.

I'm not that religious but in the bible it says:

In the Old Testament, we find this example of God sanctioning self-defense:

    "If a thief is caught in the act of breaking into a house and is struck and killed in the process, the person who killed the thief is not guilty of murder." (Exodus 22:2)

Weapons were used in the Bible for the purpose of self-defense; nowhere in scripture is this forbidden.

In the New Testament, Jesus sanctioned the use of weapons for self-defense. While giving his farewell discourse to the disciples before going to the cross, he instructed the apostles to purchase side arms to carry for self-protection.

Are you saying because Australia was used as penal colony for the British, Australians can't be trusted with a gun? We're all convicts? Is that it?

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My best friend is German, his family still live there and he visits often.

I just put forth your thoughts on home invasion and self defence and I asked if you shoot the intruder, could you be arrested and charged.

He responded "lougish"(sp) which means "of course"

They do not have the immunity from prosecution that you seem to think tyhey do. They still have to justify that the amount of force used was reasonable in court.

None of his family (to his knowledge) own any firearms, he said it's not very common to do so.

He was boarding a plane interstate,so didn't get the chance to go into it in too much depth and I won't see him again until the weekend, but would there be any other questions you'd like me to ask him when I see him?

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That info was gotten from a google search and must have been wrong. The wiki one above is more accurate.