With All These Home Invasions, What Are You Legally Allowed to Do to Protect Yourself?

After reading yet more articles on brutal home invasions today in Melbourne, what are you legally allowed to do to protect you and your family if they try to enter your home?

For example, are you allowed to take to them with a baseball bat or similar?

If you hurt one of these youths (sometimes under 18), do you become legally liable for their injuries?

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  • I have enjoyed using this website for a number of years, especially the community aspects of its content. I am appalled by the amount of unmoderated racism on this thread. I would request that the moderation team explain what they consider to be racist, or what the rationale is for so many of these comments to remain published. Otherwise, I will be deleting my account I fancy!

    • +1

      Good piss off back to buzzfeed

      • If you "alt-"right types are not reigned in, I will most assuredly piss off and I am guessing I will not be alone.

        • this kind of feminine attitude is why the country is turning to shit

        • Oh, don't worry, I do quite a bit to make sure people such as you are kept right on the margins where you belong. Some of it you would consider quite masculine! But I do not subscribe to communities that provide a platform for your nonsense - this seems to be becoming one if this thread is anything to go by.

          What's going on Mods?!

        • +1

          @grammarstickler: Maybe if all the lefties were put back in their box the country would be a far better place.

        • @Skexis:

          Meanwhile, I do not think that racism has any place on this site and that is pretty official. Either the Mods are having the day off or they are not enforcing the rules. I trust they will clarify this shortly and the community standards will be enforced… or do you object to that?

  • Interesting topic….stares back at the dark windy trees and laughing kookaburras….they seems to be happy laughing non stop.

  • How about just beat the (profanity) out of them with whatever was closest to hand and worry about it later?

  • OK, I think this thread has run its course. Thread closed.

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