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What everyone, including the D.A. has neglected to state during all of this, is that Oklahoma does have what is termed a "make my day" law, which states, that if someone enters your residence or place of employment and waves a gun at you, you have the constitutional right to take his life if you feel that your life is in danger. Did Mr. Ersland feel his life was in danger? Judging from the posture of the teen with the weapon, I would say "Yes." And judging from my understanding of the statute after having read it, there is no clause or such that says, "You must try to disarm or subdue him first." It does say that the individual attacking must be inside the premises where he is commiting the assault for the assaultee to take his life, and Mr. Parker never left the premises after entering, and we can't see what Mr. Parker was actually doing while laying in the floor after being shot the first time. But the bottom line is that when those two misguided teenagers went into that store waving a gun with ski masks on, their lives were in the hands of the people inside that store. Did Mr. Ersland go too far? That's between him and the Lord. As for Oklahoma law? No. Why then is D.A. Prater pressing charges against Mr. Ersland? To cater to the black community, who, from their statements at the very beginning, made it a "black/white thing." And by the same token, now Prater has filed charges against thte robbers as well. Why? Because now he is trying to cater to the white community, and in effect, agreeing that it is a "black/white thing." But is it? NO. It is a robber/victim thing, and all Prater is doing is wasting tax dollars charging Ersland during a recession when the tax dollars could be spent in a much better fashion. I'm truly sorry that the boy was killed, but he did make his choices. He was not a "good kid" as he has been portrayed. Good kids do not rob pharmacies. And what about the kids mother whose boyfriend was in on it? Don't you kind of think that maybe she had a little more to do with it all than she has let on?
By mjphyjr ("My Fire")

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