"If a kid comes at you with a gun in hand - are you suggesting we do not shoot him?"The Making Queensland Safer (Adult Crime, Adult Time) Amendment Bill 2025 provides for an additional 20 Adult Crime, Adult Time offences, including attempted murder, rape, attempted rape, torture, aggravated attempted robbery,
trafficking in dangerous drugs, and endangering a police officer when driving a motor vehicle.Sure, society protected from gun violence, no issue there. Thing is, for a child to get a gun suggests lax gun laws.
My main issues are
1. trafficking in dangerous drugs. Children trafficing are probably doing so to feed a drug addiction. Jailing a child for an addiction is overkill.
More like remedial treatment - with better food tan 'outside'.
2. endangering a police officer when driving a motor vehicle. Racial profiling would mean any dark skin child behind a wheel will be jailed.
Rubbish. If a dark skin child is behind a wheel he is already breaking the law.
Children in jail will result in recidivism. That's a waste of life and a massive longterm cost on society.
Not being actioned for wrongdoing will definitely result in recidivism - and some will come out of their term changed people - they are not in adult prisons until they turn eighteen.
Pretty much everything said is wrong, false and deliberately misleading. Kid who end up in juvie are the worst offenders and serial and repeat offenders - don;t tell me their term inside will make them into criminals - they already are.