Mike,
Well that's her risk to take. Nobody's raping Lena Miculek though. Or any number of capable girls. And it's not just the capable ones that can stop baddies. It's the possibility, for a baddy, that he might run into one of the capable ones. It's a deterrent. There are loads of reported foilings of crimes by armed people. There are many, many more times more crimes that never go beyond the dallying planning stages because of the lingering doubt that the victim might fight back properly.
I full well know the current legal landscape. It's wrong. Obviously I want men to be able to arm themselves too but women makes the point better. Any man who thinks self-defence tools should be restricted should look at his wife, his mother, his daughter etc and picture how much of a fight they could put up against four men who want to take turns on her cnt with a knife at her windpipe. And then ask himself if he'd rather they had the chance to shoot first.
And it very obviously doesn't have to be South Africa. Is that the only place where a person has the right to not suffer violence?
That guy on the train could have been carrying and he might not now be in hospital with knife wounds. Why should heroes like him be treated with contempt? If he'd have even had pepper spray, he'd have been caged for defending people.
Have you ever been in a knife fight btw? I nearly have. It was fcking terrifying. I've trained unarmed knife defences with rubber knives. That's fcking terrifying enough. Look at a knife. Picture a man coming at you with it. Picture him pushing it between your ribs. Fcking grim. People need guns. I do anyway. Tell me I shouldn't be allowed them and that I should be unarmed against criminals who care about weapons laws as much as they care about other laws (offences against people, property etc).