Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post

Department of Justice statistics revealed that women who resisted their attackers with the use of a firearm were twice as likely to survive a violent encounter unscathed as those who followed proactive "passive defensive means" (IE blowing a whistle, screaming for help, running away etc) and 4 times as likely to survive unscathed as those resisting through other means (IE martial arts, pepper spray, tasers etc).
There is an ongoing discussion about this, whether having a weapon means you just give your attacker one - that is the prevailing logic here, I think. But there is also the problem that if you kill someone with a weapon, and your attacker has none, you have to prove self-defense beyond any doubt, or you are the one going down.(Again, here.) An attitude I can both agree with and not.

In DK you cannot carry as much as a pepper spray - reason being a) your attacker would take it away and use it against you (same argument) or b) it might harm his eyes, and we cannot have that, can we? ( I kid you not, that is the argument!!)

Conditions in UK - every day a man dies from domestic violence. An overlooked fact.

To get back to the hotel: from what you write, the primary risk is in the home, so one could argue that there is no reason for a floor for women only in a hotel. Or, that it is not to be safe, but to feel safe, which is of course also important.

I agree there aught to be a men-only floor as well to avoid the demonizing effect, but there does not seem to be a need. Yet, anyway.