Black Gun Owner Gets Two Years In Prison For Defending Her Family

By Micah Rate

Imagine living in a Stand Your Ground state and having a crazed, angry individual ram their car into yours. To make the situation even worse, your two-year-old daughter is in the car, and your mother is only a few feet away. Fearing for their safety, you grab your unloaded, legally purchased firearm to scare off the attacker, which is your right under the law. But soon after, you find yourself behind bars, facing a two-year prison sentence on a felonious assault charge, while the individual who intentionally crashed their car into yours, making you fear for the lives of yourself and your family, gets off scot-free.

It sounds like insanity, but this is the story of Siwatu-Salama Ra, a pregnant, African American woman, and legal gun owner.

One has to ask, is this still the United States of America? Or is this Great Britain, where the law seems to work against those trying to defend their lives from an attacker?

Here’s more from Reason:

Siwatu-Salama Ra is a 26-year-old black mother who watched in horror as an angry assailant—a neighbor with whom Ra had a dispute—deliberately crashed her vehicle into Ra’s car while Ra’s two-year-old daughter was playing inside. Ra removed …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms