Posted on 05/26/2011 3:05:28 PM PDT by FourPeas
Whether or not he kept his mouth shot would not have changed anything. There was a videotape showing him commit murder. Hard to argue against that.
One has the same right as one has always had in Oklahoma and the law is pretty firm on self-defense in Oklahoma. What is not supported in Oklahoma is cold-blooded murder.
Once you get a guy down and out, having shot him ... what you don’t do in Oklahoma, once your first gun is out of bullets, is walk over somewhere else, get another gun, then walk back to the guy on the ground and proceed to shoot five more bullets into him from the second gun you just got. It’s that second part that is not allowed in Oklahoma ... :-)
Ummm... the conviction of a cold-blooded murderer ...
If the pharmacist had stopped when the guy was shot and down and out, the pharmacist would have been okay.
But, walking back into the shop, going and getting a second gun (when the first one was out of bullets) and then walking back over to the guy (still on the ground) and then shooting him with five more bullets ... well ... it was that part that got him the murder conviction.
In Oklahoma, when you get a concealed weapon permit (which is a good idea and it’s pretty much automatic), you have to go in for some training about what is allowed and not allowed. They’ll train you that this kind of thing (that the pharmacist did) is not allowed legally, and that you will be legally responsible for murder if you do it.
Obviously this guy must not have gone through this kind of training, I would say.
So, the overwhelming majority of us in Oklahoma do know the difference between self-defense and murder and we simply wouldn’t do what that pharmicist did - while we WOULD defend ourselves, without a doubt, just as the D.A. said was perfectly fine (in what the pharmacist did - if he had stopped at that point).
If he did go through the training; he was either absent that day or he wasn’t listening.
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