Stand-Your-Ground law passed in Iowa in 2017.

But as gun owners in Iowa know, this was merely the capstone of a 6 year battle that kicked off in 2012, when Aaron and Chris Dorr met Jay Rodney Lewis.

While headed home from his job in an IRS call center in late 2011, Jay Lewis was run off the road by a car full of drunks in West Des Moines. After slamming his car into Lewis’s car, the driver, a two time felon with over 40 criminal convictions stretching back for years, got out of his car with his friend and the two of them tried to smash their way into the car.

Fearing for his life, Lewis drew his .380 and told the pair to back off.

Once they did, Mr. Lewis called 911 and asked for help, then drove 100 yards away to wait for help. As the 911 call proves, the suspects continued to advance at Lewis who told them — eleven separate times — to ‘get down’ and ‘get back!’

The two refused, and, when they got within striking distance, putting him in fear for his life, Lewis shot the leading aggressor with his .380. He continued to do everything by the book, telling dispatchers what happened, what he was wearing, where his gun was and more.

But when the cops arrived, it was Lewis who was led away in handcuffs.