Submitted on Sunday 12th July 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 11th August 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow non-lethal self defense items for UK citizens.
Repeal the ban on non-lethal self defense items like pepper spray for UK citizens personal protection. As violent sexual crimes against young women and stabbings and terror attacks increase, the average law abiding citizen is completely defenseless and has zero legal rights of self defense.
Recent terror attacks, acid attacks, rapes and stabbings against innocent unarmed civilians is becoming commonplace. Pepper spray, perfectly legal in other EU countries with no issues is classed as a section 5 firearm- the same as a machine gun. A young woman carrying pepper spray to defend against a rapist would be looking at 5 years jail- yes, you read that right. It's a terrible injustice that vital PPE isn't available to the law abiding. We cannot have more defenseless victims.
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