Zekkyou on 27 January 2016
| Mr_No said: I get that pepper spray can cause some permanent damage to the eyes, but come on, she was about to get raped. She was defending herself and anything goes. She did what anyone would do in this situation. Damn these governments. Next thing, they'll make it illegal to defend yourself from a sexual attack. |
The issue isn't that she defended herself. She isn't (at least to the best of my knowledge) being brought up on assault charges. The issue is she was in possession of something she isn't aloud to have, so naturally their are repercussions. In essence she is being fined for something she did prior to the attack, not during it. The attack just happened to real the existence of the thing she isn't supposed to have.
It sucks that she has to deal with this after what she went through, but outside of a debate over whether the ban on pepper spray should exist or not, there shouldn't be anything controversial about the fine (assuming she actually get the fine at all).
