AR Man’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ Fight Proves Not Every Experience Is Anti-Gun

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, TJ Mullinax, File

Usually, when we talk about someone using their personal experience to fight for political change, we tend to be talking about some anti-gunner. It’s normally someone who lost a loved one to gun violence or was somewhere a mass shooting took place, something like that.

But that’s not always the case.

For example, an Arkansas man is fighting for a “Stand Your Ground” law because of his own experiences with self-defense.

A controversial defense law that would give Arkansans the right to defend themselves with lethal force, awaits voting at the state capitol.

A local man is fighting for the bill after he said he would have died had he not defended himself from his attackers.

“The people got back into their car and were yelling something, backed their car out in between me and the gas station and they were yelling, cussing, spit at me out of the passenger side of the car. And I was like, ‘man it’s Christmas why don’t you go ahead and leave me alone?’” said NWA local, Jesse Pettry.

For Pettry, Christmas morning took a turn for the worst.

He ducked his head down and just started throwing punches over and over and …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms