Here's more to the latest Fern Acres gun crime sagas. This woman was disarmed by the state law prohibiting carrying, and thus had no possible realistic defense against being raped at gunpoint, because she could not legally bear a firearm outside her home, business, or place of sojourn except to go to the police department, a range, a place of repair, a gun show, or a hunting area.

Here is the comment I wrote at the article:

This story can't be true. Hawaii has some of the strictest "gun control" laws in the United States, including being the only jurisdiction to require full registration of all firearms. There are also state and federal laws banning the possession of firearms and ammunition from anyone convicted of a felony, which this guy was. So, therefore, this story must be wrong because here we have a convicted felon ("allegedly") possessing firearms and ammunition. In the meantime, the victim was prohibited from carrying a firearm to protect herself from a rapist. I dare anyone to "make sense" of those laws, wherein the person who suffers as a result of the laws is not the criminal, but the innocent victim of the criminal.

Prosecutor: Standoff suspect used firearm to force sex

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018/12/14/hawaii-news/prosecutor-standoff-suspect-used-firearm-to-force-sex/

A man accused of a holding a woman hostage at gunpoint and engaging in a three-hour standoff with police Tuesday in Fern Acres subdivision threatened to shoot the victim if she didn’t have sex with him, a prosecutor said Thursday in Hilo District Court.

Eric Jason Ragragola is charged with first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping, the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, being a felon in possession of a firearm, first-degree terroristic threatening and domestic abuse.

At Ragragola’s initial court appearance, his attorney, Deputy Public Defender Isaac Ickes, asked Judge Kanani Laubach to grant his client supervised release, “notwithstanding the recommendation of Intake Services.”

[The attorney asks for "supervised release" because the guy has a job?  ]