RS> And I'm talking about changing the law so that if the say burglar
RS> you find in your home gets badly injured, thats just too bad for
RS> the burglar. We can change the law to that any time we like.

JT> Cool idea, why hasn't it been changed already?

PE> First of all we need to be in a position where we stop
PE> voting the socialists into power all the time.  Then we
PE> need to start voting for a right-wing party that's going
PE> to address the social issues, as well as the economic ones.
PE> With the intelligence level demonstrated by Australians at election
PE> days over the last 13 years, don't expect justice in a hurry.

JT> IOW, I thought right in the first place,

Fraid not.

JT> we can't change the law anytime we like.

Yes, you need enough support for the change, but like we
just changed the gun laws recently, if there is that, the
law can be changed. And that was in the more difficult situation
of changing what wasnt even a federal responsibility too.

You may have noticed that the law on curfews for kids was changed
in NSW for example. That was basically done because enough thought
that that was a useful change on those particular crims.

Sure, the wankers are trying to get it changed back, and Bob
Carr has just given them the finger, essentially because he
thinks that enough of the voters think its the way to go.
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