After the murder of Lisa, the cabinet wants to allow women to accelerate pepper spray.
Van Weel is considering legalizing Pepperspray because of murder of Lisa (17)
It sounds decisive, as is more often the case if a sound from the ivory towers of The Hague is blaling, it is also understandable that it is not a real solution but symptom control.
Everyone knows: a change in the law lasts months to years. With a outgoing cabinet and elections on the doorstep, this is primarily a gesture for the stage.
In addition, how will you ever test whether the use was proportional? How do you prevent pepper spray from ending up in the wrong hands and is being abused to overpower victims?
And, yes, I’m going to say, why only women? In a time of woke and gender debates, this feels not only discriminatory, but also legally untenable. Who determines who can defend himself? The right to self -defense belongs to everyone.
In the meantime, another fundamental conversation is not forthcoming: why do some men behave like they are entitled to women, and what role do the poisonous messages play of certain influencers? As long as it is not tackled, almost every measure of sham security remains.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but pepper spray is above all a nice sound for the stage now. Real safety requires guts: a working chain and the courage to name male responsibility.
Let’s hope that the attention will not be weakened in a few weeks, that ‘we demand the night’ and everything around it stays up to date and that something will really happen and not like the Bangalist in Utrecht will silence the next sad event, because of that I am spontaneously tearing in my eyes.
Sebastiaan Beens, Amersfoort