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    did he mean to keep shooting and run short of ammo so he retrieved another weapon?

    what was the round count in the original weapon?
    I'm sorry but I can't find good info, maybe you can link?

    do you want a prediction?
    NOT GUILTY or charges dropped

    short of more info I can only offer my views, like anyone wants that LOL

    I say once someone initiates an act of aggression sufficient to warrant deadly force, the game isn't over until someone has died (hello? deadly force?)

    all those coward PC concealed carry instructors and others who
    "shoot to end the fight" are full of crap and are responsible for this

    you shoot to kill
    if you don't want to kill them then you have no business using a firearm
    they are the machinery of death plain and simple

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    Here's a link to the story on the drudge report
    The page begins with this:
    A little before 6:00 p.m., last Tuesday, two armed men rushed into the Reliable Discount Pharmacy in Oklahoma City, and demanded money and drugs. The store had been robbed two years earlier, a robbery in which the store's employees had been forced into a back room and severely beaten.
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    ...i dont know the whole story, but i do know that some people, when their life is threatened or under extremely,dangerous situations, black out and dont remember or cant control what they are doing. Possibly a berserker???
    I know i did this once in a high school fight...came to, trying to stuff a gangmembers head in a soda machine. This thing is very scary and i feel for the defender, if that is what happened.
    Heh...he could just be crazy too...we will only know his side now.

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    I read a bit about the case before. The kid he shot was hit in the head, and was laying on the floor unconcious. OUT. THe other robber ran out, and the guy chased him...but did not catch him. Returned tot he store, where the kid was STILL UNCONCIOUS. Then, the pharmacist grabbed another gun from behind the counter (as far as I'm concerned, this point doesn't matter, it could have been the same gun), and fired five mroe times into the unconcious robber.
    I'll be interested to see how it plays out.

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    Shooting a person in self defense? Yes. Absolutely. They were shooting at him, shooting back is perfectly acceptable.

    But ONCE YOU ARE SAFE, it is no longer self defense. Unconscious=no danger, no danger= murder.

    Ersland grabbed the semi-automatic Kel-Tec .380 in his pocket.
    "And that's when I started defending myself," he said. "The first shot got him in the head, and that slowed him down so I could get my other gun."
    What kind of thought process is that? Can anyone explain WHY on earth any rational human being would think "I just shot this guy in the head, so now I need another gun to take care of him?" There's something fundamentally wrong there. I shoot. I have had guns since I was 12 years old. I'm a lover of good guns. But this guy honestly makes me think that people should have psych evaluations before they are allowed to carry a deadly weapon...

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimR View Post
    The first shot got him in the head, and that slowed him down so I could get my other gun.
    What kind of thought process is that?
    Quite rational if the first weapon achieved no more than slowing the attacker down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimR View Post
    Shooting a person in self defense? Yes. Absolutely. They were shooting at him, shooting back is perfectly acceptable.

    But ONCE YOU ARE SAFE, it is no longer self defense. Unconscious=no danger, no danger= murder.



    What kind of thought process is that? Can anyone explain WHY on earth any rational human being would think "I just shot this guy in the head, so now I need another gun to take care of him?" There's something fundamentally wrong there. I shoot. I have had guns since I was 12 years old. I'm a lover of good guns. But this guy honestly makes me think that people should have psych evaluations before they are allowed to carry a deadly weapon...

    You need to be put into a similar life threatening situation, your primal survival instincts may take over, fight or flight, rational thought is not part of the equation once the violence starts, its kill or be killed , and it wont stop until the adrenaline says so. I doubt if vengence had anything to do with it and if it did so what? The crook forfieted his right to life when he tried to deny another their right to life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by smokelaw1 View Post
    I read a bit about the case before. The kid he shot was hit in the head, and was laying on the floor unconcious. OUT. THe other robber ran out, and the guy chased him...but did not catch him. Returned tot he store, where the kid was STILL UNCONCIOUS. Then, the pharmacist grabbed another gun from behind the counter (as far as I'm concerned, this point doesn't matter, it could have been the same gun), and fired five mroe times into the unconcious robber.
    I'll be interested to see how it plays out.
    well in this case I'm not so certain

    if he was unconscious then ........ perhaps the coroner could determine if the original wound was fatal

    as in
    it wouldn't have mattered anyway

    what was the duration of the owners absence before returning to shoot him more?

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    Quote Originally Posted by smokelaw1 View Post
    I read a bit about the case before. The kid he shot was hit in the head, and was laying on the floor unconcious. OUT. THe other robber ran out, and the guy chased him...but did not catch him. Returned tot he store, where the kid was STILL UNCONCIOUS. Then, the pharmacist grabbed another gun from behind the counter (as far as I'm concerned, this point doesn't matter, it could have been the same gun), and fired five mroe times into the unconcious robber.
    I'll be interested to see how it plays out.
    Thanks for the details Smoklaw.

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    After he shot the four kids for brandishing a screwdriver and demending five dollars, Bernhard Goetz walked over to Darrel Cabey who was lying on the floor wounded and said, "You don't look so bad, have another." And he shot Darrel again, severing his spinal cord leaving him paralyzed for life. Goetz was hailed as a hero and aquitted of all charges except an illegal weapon charge for which he served a third of a year.

    I tend to believe that there must be a clear and immediate threat to justify use of deadly force in self defense. I don't believe a kid lying unconscious on the deck bleeding poses any credible threat.

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