Rogue MP Bob Katter calls for all high school kids to be given GUNS to defend Australia against an ‘existential threat’
- Rogue MP Bob Katter said every schoolkid should be armed ‘to defend Australia’
- Mr Katter compared tensions in the Indo-Pacific to the situation in Ukraine
- He also said every school should have buildings where weapons are stored
Outspoken politician Bob Katter has called for high school students to be given guns to protect Australia from an ‘existential threat’ from China.
The North Queensland MP compared the growing tensions in the Indo-Pacific to the situation in Ukraine and said teenagers should be trained to take up arms.
‘How are you going to defend this country? You’ve got no fuel, you’ve got no petrol, you’ve got no missiles, you’ve got no army,’ the rogue MP told Sky News this week.
Mr Katter said under his plan 13-year-olds would be trained to use rifles and schools across the country would have armory buildings where weapons are stored.
He added that he was taught to use a rifle ‘as big as he was’ when he was a young teenager.
Controversial MP Bob Katter (pictured) said Australian students should be taught to use guns so they can defend the country from security threats
‘There is a firing range right in the centre of Sydney actually … it would be working 24 hours a day every day of the year,’ Mr Katter said.
‘Look at Ukraine, how is a little tiny country holding at bay… one of the two greatest armies on earth,’ he said.
‘How are they doing that? because everyone has a gun.
‘If you have five million rifles in Australia and people knowing how to use them then you have to have a 100-million-man army to invade Australia and hold it.’
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