Canadian leftists are appalled and horrified because a more sensible Canadian politician suggested it ought to be legal for women to carry pepper-spray for self-defense. A Feminist Canadian MP says such a reform “places the onus on women to defend themselves rather than addressing and preventing gender-based violence.”
The feminist left perspective is: “Bad people are only bad because the Patriarchy teaches them to be bad. An enlightened Matriarchy will teach everyone not to be bad.” In the meantime, I guess women who get raped should just lie back and think of Utopia.
It is illegal to carry pepper spray for self-defense in Canada. (It’s also super-restricted in DC, Californezuela, New York, and New Jersey… and is completely illegal in the city of Chicago.) Tasers — another form of non-lethal self-defense — are illegal in Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. -Gee, what do all of these places have in common?
This is why I don’t trust leftists when they say, “Oh, sweetie, we’re not going to confiscate your guns. All we want to do is have a few more background checks.” Because it’s bull. Anytime the left is given a chance to disarm the citizenry, they disarm the citizenry.
Don’t hold back, VtK. Tell us how you really feel about leftist politicians who have body guards, live in gated communities, have everyone else do their shopping so they don’t ever have to go out in public except to campaign, and want everyone else to be docile and let the government protect them….maybe….eventually.
So it happened.
Canada jumping on the German bandwagon of the large scale SJW*** experiment.
***Suicidal Joyride in the West
Maybe women should be prohibited from wearing seat belts, since it puts the onus on them to prepare for the possibility of traffic accidents rather than addressing the problem of our patriarchal society that encourages reckless driving.
Of course, the people who say that a woman is a rape victim if she has consensual sex with some guy who turns out to be a lousy lay, are the same people who don’t want a woman to be armed so that she can defend herself against some sociopath who breaks into her home and attacks her.
And if she gets raped by a Muslim, they will “put the onus” on her, saying that it’s her fault for going out in public without a veil or a hijab.
Interesting that Cabela’s has Chicago on the list of prohibited cities for pepper spray. After seeing a display in a DICK’S in a non-regulated state, I almost bought a container, as I occasionally travel to the Blowhard City. I could have sworn that the list I checked had no restrictions in the Land Of Lincoln. I did check and find that Taxachusetts does restrict pepper spray statewide.