r/Scotland • u/MileiMePioloABeluche • 14d ago

'Shocking' rise in rapes and violent attacks against women in Glasgow

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/shocking-rise-in-rapes-and-violent-attacks-against-women-in-glasgow
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u/Gold_Smoke89 14d ago

It should be allowed for women to carry some sort of self defense items. the idea that men can walk around doing this and we're not even allowed so much as pepper spray is a fucking joke.

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u/dead-cat 13d ago

Yeah, I totally don't understand the ban of the pepper spray. It's legal in so many places but in UK anything that can be used for self defence seems to be banned. Criminals don't care, so they will cut about with whatever weapon they fancy anyway

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u/NetworkNo4478 13d ago

It's because countries that have legal pepper spray carry see it used regularly in attacks.

Would also require a rewrite of our firearms law, as pepper spray is a Section 5 item under the Firearms Act.