>>The point at issue is male violence against women and the extent to which the law could/should do more.
I am well aware of unwanted male attention. We men get it too though on nothing like the level women do.
The odds of being a victim to a stranger in Everard's way, whether a child or a grown woman, are vanishingly small; you're more likely to win the lottery. I'm far from convinced that encouraging a climate of fear and hysteria, in a way an event such as that does, helps anybody at all.
But more specifically, there is nothing more the law could have done in Everard's case, short of supplying crystal balls to the Met. What the bloke did was stonkingly illegal, and carries a life term.
You cannot legislate to stop men (or people in general) from behaving in such a manner; you can only legislate to punish them. This is what I don't understand about the point of the protest.
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