Submitted on Sunday 2nd November 2025
Rejected on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legalise pepper spray to allow people to protect themselves from attacks
Pepper spray should be legalised to allow people to defend themselves in public.
Terror and knife attacks are becoming the new normal in the United Kingdom. The public currently have no means to protect themselves from these attacks. Legalising this would at least give people a fighting chance to defend themselves.
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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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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Legalise pepper spray in England: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/742673
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