Some Koreans are Calling for Regulations on Self Defense Weapons
If this crazy guy couldn’t buy brass knuckles to commit his crime he could have just as easily used a hammer. Are those going to be banned too?:
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| The suspect, second from right, charged with rape and murder at Sillim-dong, Seoul, leaves Seoul Gwanak Police station after an investigation, Saturday. Yonhap |
Growing concerns over the possible criminal use of self-defense weapons are sparking calls for tougher regulations on the products.
Korea Times
Fears come in the wake of a heinous crime involving a 30-year-old man who assaulted a woman, on a hiking trail in southern Seoul, with two brass knuckles, after which, he raped her, Thursday. The victim died, Saturday.
“It scared me because it is so easy to buy them online, and I also wonder if I can actually use brass knuckles in self-defense in an urgent situation,” said Lee So-heon, 26, a university student who also lives in southern Seoul.
The latest attack adds to a recent string of violent crimes that have alarmed the public. Ahead of the murder case, a knife-wielding rampage occurred near Sillim Station, July 21, followed by a similar incident at Seohyeon Station in Gyeonggi Province, Aug. 3, which sparked a surge in the sales of self-defense weapons.
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Hammers have a use, they are an essential everyday tool.
What are the uses for brass knuckles? Other than for bashing people.
Bad analogy, GI.
If Koreans really wanted to be adults instead of children, they would find ways to protect themselves from criminals and lunatics who ignore the laws against harming others.
Maybe encouraging all heads of households to defend themselves would be a good idea.
@Korean Homme, all I am saying is that even if the brass knuckles were illegal it would not have prevented the crime because the offender could have just used a hammer.
Hammers have this very intuitive physics property called leverage. It allows one to hit harder. They also grant additional reach. A superior, more effective melee weapon than brass knuckles. Evidently, “Korean Homme” has never used a hammer. I question if Homme is really a Homme and not a “they/them.”
Setnaffa, Korea has about 15% of America’s population but probably less than 0.01% of its violent crime.
While I prefer to carry a gun in America, depending where I am, the chance of being a victim in Korea is somewhere between being struck with a meteorite and lightening.
America has too many unpredictable druggies, crazies who default to violence, and a thug culture which glorifies finding victims.
Korea doesn’t have these problems and the crazies are more likely to hurt themselves.
With this in mind, carrying a weapon is more of a liability in Korea. I don’t want to see the “self-defense” culture and its associated paranoia and distrust to take hold in Korea.
In America, my right to a firearm and my right to kill a violent criminal in non-negotiable.
In Korea, it is currently not necessary. I really, really hope it stays that way.
CH, I hear what you’re saying; but I can read, too. Should so-called Korean “men” allow other Koreans to beat, rape, and murder their mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters?
Not being allowed self-defense is for slaves; and not defending your family is for cowards. And I never thought actual South Korean men would embrace either, much less both, of those labels.
Where’s all that vaunted “filial piety”?
Maybe I was wrong about Korean Culture and Character.
Ah… the right (or perhaps philosophical obligation) to self defense is a related-but-somewhat-different issue than the weapons debate.
There is not a strong need to carry defensive weapons in Korea… and I wish it to stay that way.
However, Korea needs to make sensible self defense laws.
If someone attacks, you must be able to reasonably (and perhaps slightly more than reasonably) defend yourself without any criminal or civil penalty.
My Story:
I was attacked by a guy on the street. I took his blows and only blocked his attack while backing up and telling him to stop. I was uninjured but my shirt was torn.
The police showed up within minutes and tackled him with a small amount of resistance.
I filed a report and it was all over.
Or was it?
The cops called me and said that he claimed I hit back while he was hitting me. I had comitted a serious crime and was under investigation. The police were looking to screw me.
Fortunately, someone took a full video from start to finish and got it to me a few days later.
It clearly shows I did nothing at the time he said I had.
Suddenly, “Gosh, there has been a mistake.”
Yeah. You knew that. Fùck you, pigs.
Korean police are idiots and the law backs up their idiocy.
Bonus: The guy had been arrested in the same place doing the same thing the day before. The pigs knew it.
Double Bonus: I was once under investigation for assault. The reason/situation given was so ridiculous, I yelled at the detective.
“Why the fùck am I here? If you had asked the accuser a few smart questions, you wouldn’t even need to talk to me. You are a fùcking detective. Fùcking detect.”
Then I trotted in video and witnesses.
Solved.
“Now I want to press charges against them for filing a false police report.”
The pigs suddenly were very uninterested in doing any work.
Moral of the story:
A lot of Korean law was written by people unconnected to reality. Everybody wants to push decisions up the line so they don’t get any blame if their decision is wrong. Korean police are clowns looking to do as little work as possible. But they will work a bit ton screw a foreigner.
Advice:
When you have any police interaction, immediately start recording a selfie.
“Why are you doing that?”
“If I need to go to court, I need to document my experience.”
They will be the most polite and professional police you have ever met.
It looks like Chickenhead has been in trouble with the cops numerous times before. I wonder why? Where there is smoke, there is fire.
South Korea has stupid self-defense laws that make it criminal to defend yourself or your property.
BAN ALL HAMMERS…..
Korean Homme, there is plenty of smoke and plenty of fire.
In my defense:
– I take little shìt when I am right and I have little respect for those who don’t stand up to injustice
– I cover my back end in a number of way
– It is clear I mean no harm except to those which society, if not the law, agree need harmed
– I can demonstrate I am an exceptionally productive memeber of Korean society
– If the only punishment is a fine/payoff/bribe, it is not a crime for the rich