The main goals that this resolution should establish, are a clear definition of the self defense clause, and firmly establish rules of what the powers the GA and Sovereign Nations within can utilize to put this proposal into play.
As such, we have already four tenets that we feel are well established, but as of yet to be drafted into a rough draft, and we would like the GA's input on the matter.
Category: Civil Rights
Strength: Mild
Recognizing the right of all individuals to protect themselves, from all threats foreign or domestic,
Identifying that most WA Nations have no properly established clause to allow their citizens these protections,
Accepts that state established lawful forces are not always present to unlawful actions being committed against individuals,
Establishes that a WA Member Nation's sovereign law is held tantamount to this resolution, and that nothing in this resolution is allowance for any form of infraction or voidance of a Member Nation's sovereign law or by definition, of their law enforcement, state officials and military personnel.
Urges the Assembly establish legislation to grant citizens within their nations the right to self defense within Member Nations' established sovereign law,
The World Assembly:
1) Defines self-defense as a legal countermeasure an individual may take to guard the health and well-being of oneself, friends, family, either related to them by blood or law, and/or property from harm within an unlawful action being taken against the individual through criminal actions on part of the person or group actively committing the unlawful act.
2) Further defines arms as any specifically designed weapon, device or object, used in a manner with intent to cause damage and/or bodily harm, by the individual enacting the right to self-defense against the person or group in the process actively committing the unlawful act against them.
3) Affirms the defense of oneself under the definition of excessive duress, within applicable and reasonable force on part of the individual enacting the right to self-defense, stressing that lethal force only being utilized against the person/group committing the unlawful infraction, provided the situation therein has escalated to a life threatening one.
3a) Recognizes that an individual may exercise the use of lethal force against a home intruder, and guards them from criminal action being taken against them that are applicable within the bounds of a WA Member Nation's sovereign law.
3b) Establishes that self-defense can be used against lawful forces, such as state officials, law enforcement, and/or military personnel, as long as these forces were not acting as expected to and not operating within the bounds of a WA Member Nation's sovereign law and are committing an unlawful infraction against the individual,
3b-a) Clarifies that this clause cannot be used against a lawful force who, by manner of action within the established laws, is advancing their authority as is allowed within, affirming that only those lawful forces acting outside the bounds of their professional duty are subject to this resolution as permissible within a WA Member Nation's sovereign law.
4) Establish the crimes that self-defense can be used in a case, and subject to a WA Member Nation’s sovereign law, and only in the event said unlawful infraction is physical against the individual, as such said unlawful infractions include but not limited to, robbery, armed and unarmed, battery, assault, and/or attempted murder.
