O sung
Sometimes the more serious and heavy that things become the more humorous they become. Select 'ignore' and it's OK.

Is Mise,

I agree with you. However, as ordinary citizens and businesses are finding every day to their cost, the politically-correct Nanny State is far more interested in controlling and hampering the ordinary, reputable, law-abiding person and business, than criminals and ferals, whose 'rights' occupy the leftists and their politics.

o sung wu, yourself and others have remarked here and in other threads (and I hope I am not 'verballing' any) on the commonsense that applied for many, many years. All gone it seems. Daily, the good is being recklessly thrown out with the bathwater by fools and scoundrels. Regulations and interpretations based on evidence? Forget that!

If anything ever goes pear-shaped, the people who scoff at the thought now will not be there to pay for the costs in support. For example, if an offender is alleged to have been harmed (perish the thought!) in the commission of his/her crime, the citizen who defended him- herself could be in serious trouble. What if the temporarily blinded offered walked onto an adjoining motorway to meet a passing bus, or suffered an epileptic fit resulting in harm?

Then there is the problem of the 'tactical' description and design that hysterics react to. What if there is a media beat-up and one of the left-leaning judges with a bleeding heart for protecting ferals is on the bench?

There is sillier stuff going down daily in politically correct Oz.

There is no reason why the Qld Weapons Branch shouldn't be asked for rulings and in writing.

Why put other licences/job/recreation/interests/assets at risk of a speculative police charge to set a precedent and a court decision that surprises? At around $130 for a full-size Maglite* instead, the Maglite could be the cheapest insurance you ever took out. Insurance against some promotion-hunting fool of a constable for starters.

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"What if the temporarily blinded offered walked onto an adjoining motorway to meet a passing bus, or suffered an epileptic fit resulting in harm?"

should be,

"What if the temporarily blinded OFFENDER walked onto an adjoining motorway to meet a passing bus, or suffered an epileptic fit resulting in harm?"

Is Mise,

Where I was getting to with the torch and its advertising is that insurers and their lawyers rule.

The Nanny State (politically correct) over-regulation by the Qld Labor government will continue to have flow-on effects, the most noticeable being more limited range of products and higher prices.

Reputable companies are being squeezed out by apparently cheap but high-profit makers of cr@p, who regularly close up shop and re-open under another name, thereby avoiding any warranty and other blow-back