I think thats a problem for India and probably some other eastern countries, but not the west.

Well, how many rape scenarios would a gun feasibly stop? Would a gun help if you're drugged unconscious or too drunk to handle one safely? Would you be able to reach and operate your gun if you're getting intimate with someone and they start going too far (and without them overpowering and taking it from you)? Is lethal force lawful if someone approaches you without a weapon? If not, is it already too late to pull and use a gun by the time their intent is clear, let alone clear enough to exonerate you after the fact? If they do have a weapon, can you get your own out in time before they use theirs?

The rough percentage of rape scenarios where I can imagine a gun would be worth carrying to prevent is very small. Pepper spray or tasers, on the other hand, could be useful in more scenarios, require little training, can be carried in more places, and pose much less danger to yourself if taken from you.

I'm not about to propose the existence of a singular solution to the problem of rape culture or suggest that Indian women pursue a course that might be considered more PC and appropriate here in the United States. Indian feminists understand the particular expressions and force of rape culture in their own country better than I do and can surely, accordingly, devise their own solutions on their own terms.

Yep. I don´t think that such thing exists in the West or, at least, not in most countries here. Rape is always considered a crime in this part of the world, at least.

This argument seems to be about reducing rate rates and not rape culture, unless you really want to look at the situation in a larger scale - which seems fairly pointless in this case, I think. Anyway, regarding rape rates, guns can probably help a bit, but as far as I know, most rapes happen in situations where either using or maybe even carrying a gun would probably be too hard to have much of an effect. Regarding this 'rape culture' (which I'm fairly convinced to be either a really bad name for a real issue or something that doesn't really exist, unless the situation is radically different in other western countries), I doubt guns could really have much effect on it.

Judging by that definition, I'd say it doesn't exist in my country. Well, there's always small vocal minorities, but calling anything a 'culture' because of them sounds more than a bit wrong to me. Of course I could be wrong, but I would imagine that I would have at least some idea about what this 'rape culture' really is about if it really was much of a thing here.

Yeah I read them, did you? Here's their definition from the 1st one: "Rape Culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture." From the 2nd one: "It describes a culture in which dominant social norms belittle, dismiss, joke about or even seem to condone rape and sexual assault." Using those same definitions proves my statement about such culture not existing here, not saying it doesn't happen but it certainly isn't prevalent, never encouraged or excused by our society as a whole or even the majority. Just because a number of subhuman trash commit such atrocities and unfortunately a few of them get away from it does not mean our culture encourages it, not even close.

What a dumb question, we don't live in a rape culture... what a poorly thought out question and a stupid and unwarranted accusation.

All of the western world condemns rape, it's a serious crime that basically imprisons a person all their life, even then they'll be outcasts from society, shunned and treated as trash.

In no part of the world does ANYBODY sympathise with a rapist, it is not normalised or excused in any part of the world, especially western culture.

And guns don't solve anything, they only increase the chances of crime, homicides and mass shootings, it's counter productive and quite backward thinking. Violence does NOT solve violence.

Please stop with “rape culture”. That isn’t a thing in the west. Stop.

Rape culture is something in India. Not in the West. People who complain about things like this in the West clearly have no idea what's happening in the rest of the world.

Like people complaining that Europe is racist and sexist... I've lived in Japan for a year now, and I can assure you that European people have now idea what a racist and sexist society can be (and I'm sure other countries are worse that Japan).

EDIT: And guns to solve rapes? You mean that you want rapists to kill their victims when they're done, to get murder cases instead of rape cases? That's a nice way to reduce rapes... 

Because it's worse in other places doesn't mean that there aren't issues here. I don't understand why people would just want to ignore the problems here instead of tackling them merely because it is more severe elsewhere.