Submitted on Sunday 24th March 2019
Rejected on Thursday 4th April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make pepper spray legal for self-defence in the UK
People in the UK do not have a legal way to defend themselves effectively against armed criminals or simply against those who have a physical advantage.
In current situation - potential rapists, terrorists, thieves and robbers have an advantage against law abiding people.
Main argument of "enemies" of pepper spray legalisation is that it will open the door for potential criminals; however, any potential criminals would use any sort of weapons (e.g. knives, sprays) for their malicious actions even without legalisation — because such weapons can be bought in the UK without any barriers (and even an umbrella can be used as an offensive weapon - let's just ban it).
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/236797
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