Woman Uses Her Gun to Defend Her Family, Finds Herself Facing Two Years in Prison

By Micah Rate

Imagine living in a Stand Your Ground state and having a crazed, angry individual ram their car into yours. To make matters worse, your two-year-old daughter is in the car, and your mother is standing nearby. Fearing for their safety, you grab your unloaded, legally purchased firearm from inside the car to scare off the attacker. But soon after the incident, you’re the one who finds themselves behind bars, serving a two-year mandatory prison sentence on felony possession of a firearm charge because police reports state you committed a felony with your firearm. Furthermore, the individual who intentionally crashed their car into yours, making you fear for your life and the lives of your family, gets off scot-free.

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

It is important to note that the details above are disputed by the woman who may, in fact, be the aggressor, Channell Harvey. Unfortunately, Harvey’s account versus Ra’s turns this case into one of she said, she said. However, if Ra’s statement is accurate, one has to ask, is this still the United States of America? Or is this Great Britain, where the …Read the Rest

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