Krissy Noble, then pregnant, used her husband’s firearm to protect herself from a man who was did a home invasion of her house, beating her, with the intent to do who knows.
She killed the man who threatened her life, but because she had a prior non-violent drug conviction for marijuana (even though she acted legally in self defense) she risked going to prison for six years.
The message was from the Arkansas government was, if you have a way to defend yourself from a potential murderer, then let him potentially murder you, if you have a felony marijuana drug conviction.
By the way, these drugs she didn’t even directly posses, but were in a car she was in that was stopped by police.
If you support (or not) gun rights, and you support rational policy, then punishing and locking up this young mother is absurd.
Non-violent felons shouldn’t be automatically stripped of their gun rights and let’s end the war on marijuana.
By the way, if you are interested, the group www.norml.org is working to end these anti-marijuana laws, so women like Krissy are no longer punished for defending herself and her child to be.