Danish teen fought off her attacker - now she'll face fine. A 17-year-old girl who was physically and sexually attacked in Sønderborg will herself face charges for being in possession of Pepper spay,

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m0ney said:

FromDK said:

Danish and proud.. (this one part is not the reason.. for my sake pepersprays could be legal.. but we should offcourse never alow thing like stunners and guns)

AND.. the law is not that hard and she will 100% only get a litle fine.. (if at all)

Also.. there is a reason not to allow things like pepersprays.. stunners and guns (even for self protect).. becourse all studdy shows that bad guys adapt too. (more violent crimes)

Honestly I am shocked about your opinion and it is a good example of what is wrong with Scandinavian countries. You think criminals will stop doing their deeds because something will become illegal? Rape is illegal too, right? So why are rapists attempting rapes? Maybe because 'rape' is defined as 'surprise sex' in your country? I don't know I'm just guessing, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Not that I agree with it, but the argument goes like this.

Not all criminals are the same, some do crime not because they are evil but because they are desparate.  Desparate people can perhaps be reasoned with and helped.  However, giving citizens more and more tools to defend themselves results in a series of escalations by cold hard criminals and desparate criminals alike.  Give citizens peper spray, criminals wear masks and bring knives.  Give citizens knives, criminals bring guns.  Give citizens guns, criminals bring bigger guns. etc etc.  All the while more people get hurt criminals and citizens alike.

Again I don't think I buy the above, but I do know that the United States' (my country) cavalier attitude towards criminals can be pretty harsh.  Pretty much any crime except white collar crime can result in death and very people seem to give a shit.