What are your rights if your home is invaded?

What are your rights in a home invasion? @QLSPresident Bill Potts shares do and don’t tips on how to defend yourself, within the legal parameters, if you ever experience a home invasion in Queensland. In his vlog, he cautions you not to take on home invaders but to defend yourself if necessary to protect you or other home occupants. He encourages a call to Police and offers a reminder that while property can be replaced, people cannot.
Hear more about this topic in President Bill Potts’ interview on Network Seven’s Sunrise: / 253527332267652
You can follow QLS President Bill Potts on Twitter: / qlspresident

[@drmz6506]

Cops are 30 mins away at best. Much better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

[@wyattfamily8997]

The vagaries of the law regarding home invasion are ridiculous. If a person or persons invade an individuals home, particularly if they are armed IN ANY WAY, then the law should NEVER be used against the individual protecting his home and person, to remove any doubt to the rights of the "homeowner" or legal tenant. To do otherwise is to give full license to the thieves and criminals who always seem to know THEIR RIGHTS as they ignore their VICTIMS RIGHTS. To expect legal analysis as to what action is permitted as one or more home invaders attack, is patently idiotic.

[@robferguson9800]

So basically I have to ask what their intentions are so I can react accordingly.

[@charliebellvue5847]

If I get home invaded they get to meet "Horace and Dan" two of the biggest Dobermans nobody wants to meet.... they will let you in... but.. they definitely won't let you out.

[@richardho5955]

My Dad always said to me if confronted and escape isn’t an option…’Do unto others what they would do unto you…but do it first’! 😊🇦🇺

[@thetoymanator7723]

Hypothetical situation: your home gets invaded. An intruder has gained unauthorised entry. You are physically attacked and forced to defend yourself and overpower the intruder who is now unconscious. You call the Police who arrive to find the intruder lying on the kitchen floor with a large kitchen knife close by on the floor. You have a few cuts on the hand and arm, the intruder is lifeless from a lethal stab wound. The kitchen knife is taken into evidence. You provide a statement about the intruder attacking you with the knife and turning it back on him in the scuffle. Forensics later confirm two sets of prints on the knife - his with yours on top. You have no security camera's. The prosecution surmise that in fact the intruder was unarmed, you cut yourself to make out you were injured, stabbed him fatally with the knife while he was unconscious, placed it in his hand after the fact then you overlayed your prints on the knife. I say prove it.

[@cameronmilne5319]

How about you have the right to repel and or protect yourself and family with any and all means possible. I have faced this situation before and it is bloody frightening. The intruder got a slap on the wrist and no conviction. FK the law in Australia, it's a joke

[@michaelshapiro1543]

Expat Canuck comment: Don't agree with "unfortunately". Don't believe that "everyone's death lessens us all." Many do, but for some, quite the opposite. Most people know this. Where I live now, firearm use is lawful to protect "life, health & property". Sane, I say.

[@mank89]

The Australian government despises self defence. I am exceedingly disappointed in the Aussies that willingly gave up their firearms after those shootings

[@user-hm8wz4vp8l]

if you are in my house uninvited then you are there to hurt me and my family and you will not leave

[@alibarber57]

I dont need the govt to give me my rights to defend my home and family from attackers...They will go out in a body bag

[@barefootbandit1]

Law needs to be changed immediately and it should state, that any person unlawfully invading your home or property, no longer has any rights upon entering.

[@DinoMartino1251]

Why are there laws protecting people who break into our house? why? If you break into some one's house your rights should be left outside! We had a Teenager kick our front door in on a Sunday morning, My Elderly parents and wife and I were all upstairs I was in the shower when my wife yelled for me to help. I got dressed really quick and started yelling at him from upstairs, He was trying to steal things from the internal garage. He ran out and jumped on a stolen motorbike and gave me the finger as He rode away. The police said if He got caught because He is under, I think 18? He would get 2 weeks in a juvenile detention and set free and when they turn 18, they have no record because all their crimes were as a juvenile! So, gangs often get young kids to do the crimes because their slate will be clean when they turn 18? Are our Qld laws ridiculous? And I guess if I belted Him with A baseball bat trying to protect my family I would be in jail the same day!

[@gunglegeorge7213]

Total bullshit. The peaceful citizen’s fate is in the hands of the criminal with the force of the law protecting the criminal - in fact incentivising the criminal. There should be no restrictions on the homeowner/resident in defending the sanctity of their sanctuary, and no protections for the criminal who invades a home. The law is an ass on this matter.

[@gregholt]

So, you can do fuck all basically? Well thank you very much Bill Potts, but that is shithouse advice. Depends on weapons, size of the person, their intent (have to read their minds). People want to know what they can get away with. Someone comes to my house with my kids in it, I'll defend with my life. What a ridiculous video.

[@steveascension9626]

That poor grandmother, murdered by a 16-year-old youth who towered over the police, was a chilling indictment of the law's failure to protect the elderly and frail. That young person was already on bail for major crimes. When a society fails to defend its most vulnerable. That society is clearly on the verge of collapse, as history has repeatedly demonstrated. The government creates the law, the judiciary enforces it, and lawyers interpret it for personal and financial gain. The Labor government is clearly to blame for this grandmother's death. The police should bear no responsibility for the incident.

[@liamwatson6789]

Answer: you have no rights.

[@michaelshapiro1543]

After

[@dibrentley7915]

The way I look at it is like this, if someone comes in to rob or hurt me in my own home, I will do what ever I have to do and worry about the law later. If you come onto someones property with intent to steal or do harm as far as im concerned you have lost all rights. Not everyone is a lawyer and the rules are so many it has to come down to common sense in emergency situation. just my five cents.

[@Brian1952ful]

In other words we really don't have the right to defend our homes. We should run away and leave our families to their fate. Disgraceful imo.