Canada: pepper spray, knives, baseball bat s for self defense r illegal.

Once the exbf is incarcerated, the specific women wouldn’t “need” to carry the self defense weapon.

Could have a permit and training system. Like the specific women could apply for a permit and have to do a training course.

Shout out to the rightwingers who will likely read this and say “if women can carry weapons, so should men”.

  • @Hirom@beehaw.org
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    Carrying this kind of weapon is illegal in various european country, minus some exception. There’s less restrictions on having those at home to defend against attackers.

    To allow carrying the gov would need to consider pro and cons. If the restrictions are lifted completely, many with ill intentions would try to abuse from this, and it’d be harder to prosecute gang members carrying weapons. If very strict exception are allowed, very few women would benefit from it.

    It’d probably be less risky policy-wise to tell people to take self-defense course that don’t involve weapons (eg krav maga, boxing, bodybuilding).