Woman arrested for holding black teens at gunpoint

[moriah]

28. Community service for 8 felonies, involving a firearm?

Max for just the Class D felony of aggravated assault (x4) is 6 years.

The false imprisonment charges, a class C felony, carry a minimum of 3 years, maximum of 8, and it should be first degree because she was holding a gun on them and obviously too damn jumpy if she came out of her house with one (creating a substantial risk of injury, as she herself admitted -- that she was willing to take their lives if they had moved the wrong way).

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Look, I'm an Arkansan, and I know a lot of people who are smart about their guns. They know the law.

And because of knowing the law, they know if they leave the safety of their home with a firearm on them to investigate "something suspicious", they're screwing up. If you leave your home and immediately point a firearm at someone, as this article says she did, you've committed aggravated assault. If you hold the person at gunpoint for police to arrive, you've committed unlawful imprisonment.

If she wanted everyone to be safe, if she was worried about lives, she should have stayed in her own home. Had they attempted to break in, she could have shot them the moment they got through the window/door under our laws and it be a "good shoot" -- but you DON'T leave your "castle" armed to investigate yourself.

We may suck, but we aren't Florida insofar as any type of Stand Your Ground law.