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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Self defense injustice in the UK
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 22:15:56 -0400
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On 6/4/2025 8:13 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 11:15:55 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I do get that (...including its rationale, but that's a different
>> discussion).  But what I'm theorizing is that if, say, he'd first
>> attacked her with his own knife, the sentence she'd have gotten for
>> defending herself with hers wouldn't have been much more than one would
>> get merely for carrying.
> 
> Surely she'd have a self defence plea in that case.

I don't see it absolving her of her (official) crime of carrying with 
intent.  But, indeed, I can't imagine a real-world conviction.