Some people in the UK have complained about the rape culture that some (not all) Muslim migrants are bringing with them from their respective countries of birth. If I were in the UK, I could be damn near arrested for a hate crime for simply mentioning this fact.
I am against all rape, no matter what religion or ethnicity a person is who commits it. However, if my country were importing people who because of their culture may be more statistically inclined to commit that offense, and my country would not allow me to speak about it. Yep, that would piss me off to no end. Without the ability to enforce your right to speak freely, things get out of control pretty fast.
Imagine the UK in the 70's if a Muslim immigrant raped someone, they'd suffer the same consequences as anyone else. However, in today's age of political correctness. People are discouraged from talking about the facts. Maybe even discouraged from pressing charges, I mean they don't want to be accused of being racist. It's just madness the things that are going on. IMO.
Mind you, this is coming from a country where if someone tries to rape us, or someone that we care about, we can shoot them dead 007 style (in self-defense).
I can talk about rape in the UK. Look I'm doing it now!
What I can't do is be threatening, abusive or insulting towards anyone while I do it. I appreciate that these are very grey areas as what one person considers insulting is difficult to gauge. I could easily offend someone through no intention on my part. These points of law in the UK and i'd guess most liberal democracies are always going to cause contention and raise the question of free speech v other generally accepted liberties which include being able to live a life without fear and persecution.
Unfortunately most cases of sexual assault and rape go unreported but I feel this has little to do with the fear of being labelled racist and more to do with the victims fear of not being believed and the stigma attached to it. Statistically though more cases of sexual assault are being reported and it is believed that this is due to the various campaigns that are now being run around the issue. At the University at which I work, as part of the talk on sexual content, we use the 'cup of tea' analogy. This compulsory talk is given to all 1st year undergrad and postgrad students from all the many nationalities and cultures that attend the institution. I'm not sure which news sources you've been reading that suggest that political correctness has somehow won over common sense and indeed the law in the UK but young people in particular are more than happy to discuss these kind of issues in a frank and constructive manner.
As for the advantage of guns in self-defence sure you can shoot an assailant, that's if he's not shot you first. But driving down the street of my town I can also be confident that if i'm involved in a fender bender or any other interaction with another individual where tempers might get frayed, that no one is going to shoot me in the face - a point that i believe @studgriffin had previously made. Is there any evidence that more guns leads to less crime?
I agree that fear of not being believed, and stigma, those too might prevent a rape from being reported. "Is there evidence that more guns lead to less crime?" I do not know for certain, if there is evidence I'm not sure that it would be uniform world-wide.
As far as america is concerned someone actually wrote a book with that exact title and makes his argument that yes indeed violent crime rates go down in states with concealed carry laws. So maybe it's not more guns per se.
Just the wild card factor that anybody could be packing, that would prevent people criminals from randomly picking marks because s/he thinks the person is not armed.