Remember Ronald Dixon? He is the New Yorker who shot a prowler who was creeping around his toddler's room in the middle of the night. Dixon, a former Navy veteran was charged for illegally possessing the handgun in New York, and prosecutor Charles Hynes has been reluctant to back down. Hynes had previously claimed that, "If you get caught with a gun in Brooklyn, you're going to do jail time."

According to the NY Daily News, Dixon recently turned down a deal from Judge Alvin Yearwood that would have given him a year probation. Dixon is firm on his stand of innocence, and he does not want a criminal record. Personally I cannot blame him. I would fight this to the end of the earth. I would fight the constitutionality of the law itself. A man's home is his castle, and the right to defend yourself and your family is of paramount importance.

Where is Reverend Al? Where is Jesse Jackson? Here is a black working class immigrant, who is being railroaded for defending his family from a home invader. If Hynes and the NY District Attorney's want to prosecute a man for protecting his family so be it. But make them pay a high political price.