Submitted on Monday 4th May 2026
Rejected on Tuesday 2nd June 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow women in the UK to carry Pepper Spray for the purposes of self-defence
Make it legal for women in the UK to carry pepper spray for the purpose of self-defence. As it stands, carrying pepper spray is illegal. This needs to change.
With the discovery of the rape academy website, violence against women and girls is a far bigger issue than we ever thought. Misogynist rhetoric is damaging how women are seen in society and too many men think rape and other crimes against women is acceptable. Women need to be able to defend themselves. Using pepper spray could allow a woman to escape a dangerous situation.
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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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
Your petition appears in essence to be a duplicate of a couple of petitions which we have already open on the e-petitions web-site, which you may wish to sign:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767270
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/752355
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