Gee, where is the NRA on this case?

[misanthrope]

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 her unloaded, legally purchased handgun from the glove box and brandished it, scaring the neighbor off.

The assailant, Channel Harvey, was never charged. Ra was arrested for felonious assault. She is now serving a mandatory two-year-sentence, even though Michigan is a Stand Your Ground state and Ra was clearly defending her family on her own property.

https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/04/02/how-a-flawed-criminal-justice-system-put-a-pregnant-detroit-activist-behind-bars

I guess the NRA has put their agitation about this case in the same file with their outrage over lawful gun owner Philando Castile.

[S.E. TN Liberal]

1. This is a black and white issue.

The NRA only sees green.

[misanthrope]

3. I think it's pretty clear they see black and white as well

Hence their silence.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Waffle House hero....no NRA, no Trump accolades, just more pure hypocrisy and propaganda.

Gun lovers have had their day, racists up next.

[Soxfan58]

2. NRA

Nothing but Racist Assholes

[Hoyt]

5. I get the implications of the racial aspects of applying gun laws. But,

The jury heard the testimony and found her guilty of brandishing a weapon.

George Zimmerman should not have gotten off. But the remedy is not to let others off when a gun does not appear to have been necessary. Gun and assault laws should be applied equally.

Two years mandatory sentence seems excessive in this case, though. I hope someone steps in and gets this lady released.

[bitterross]

9. She should have never been charged.

There is no reason she should have been charged in the first place. Sounds like, from the story, they were both aggressors. A several-thousand pound car is a weapon too.

[Hoyt]

11. I'm not much on pulling guns on people when there are other recourses.

Sounds like both has a long running dispute. Two years seems ridiculous though.

[SCantiGOP]

10. The wrong person was charged

[Hoyt]

12. I'm not so sure of that. But a jail term doesn't seem right either.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. Let me see if I have this right . . .

A woman intentionally crashes her car into Ms. Ra's car, where her DAUGHTER is playing and doesn't get charged with attempted murder, manslaughter or at least child endangerment ?? W T F ?

Pity Ms. Ra didn't shoot her windshield, blow her tires out or puncture her radiator. Personally, if anyone came that close to my child, it would be the LAST child they ever came near. Apparently, stand your ground only applies if you are white.

Who the hell was her attorney ?

[Wednesdays]

13. Her attorney was someone representing a person of color

Things didn't turn out so well for Atticus Finch, either.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. The hypocrisy is deafening. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Dana Loesch explains why the NRA didn't defend Philando Castile

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dana-loesch-explains-why-the-nra-didnt-defend-philando-castile

Dana Loesch explains why the NRA didn't defend Philando Castile

...

Loesch pointed out in her Thursday tweet that Castile was breaking the law by having a controlled substance in his possession at the time of the shooting. According to a memo filed during Yanez's case by his attorneys, Castile was a regular marijuana user and had high levels of THC in his system when he died.

According to the memo, Castile lied on his application for his firearm permit by denying he was "unlawful user of any controlled substance." It is a felony to be in possession of a controlled substance while armed with a firearm, even if lawfully in possession of the gun.

Yanez testified that the car smelled like marijuana when he pulled Castile over, and later on, Castile's fiancé Diamond Reynolds told police they had smoked marijuana before being pulled over, and had the drug in their car.

UPDATE: Since this story was published, Dana Loesch contacted the Washington Examiner and said she was not speaking for the NRA in her tweet, and that she was only commenting on the technical way the issue was being described, not on the circumstances of Castile's death.

The NRA did not respond to multiple requests for comment, nor did Loesch email a statement correcting her tweet.