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Italy broadens self defense

From Dave Kopel, over at the Volokh Conspiracy -- the Italian parliament has voted in their version of a national "make my day law." Under previous law, forced used in defense had to be "proportional" to the criminal attack -- which sounds reasonable, until you consider it meant that a woman facing a strong-arm rape broke the law if she defended with a knife or gun, since she was "escalating" the struggle from bare hands to weaponry.

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