Re:Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I...
by hluska on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @08:43PM
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In most countries, the default is whether the person had a lawful reason to be carrying the weapon used and that the defense is proportional to the attack. There’s nothing insane about that - there’s zero reason to arm yourself and millions of reasons not to.
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Re:Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I...
by giantg2 on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @09:57PM
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"whether the person had a lawful reason to be carrying the weapon used"
But that's the point - if the courts have found that defense is lawful, then it becomes a question of why it's possession (not even use and proportionality) would not be. Then you end up in a weird state where people can make up reasons to have a hammer or something else on them rather than have something potentially more reasonable/effective like pepper spray. Allowing some limited non-lethal tool seems reasonable if defense is actually something to support.