The Oklahoma SDA law states:
"A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony."
I got to thinking about this after watching a video linked in a thread over at ARFCOM. In the video, a guy confronts a kid at a gas station who is wearing a "Sons of Anarchy" jacket. Several times the guy basically threatens to take the jacket from the kid if he doesn't take it off. In this situation, if the guy made that statement and began to advance on the kid, is it reasonable for the kid to believe himself in danger of great bodily harm? Is a one-on-one barehanded attack sufficient provocation to use a CCW weapon? Does it vary from person to person? Is someone with some medical condition that could kill or cripple them in a fight more justified in using deadly force than someone relatively young and healthy or are they equal?
I'll add that although I've had my CCW for 9+ years, I've never carried even once so this is more an academic question than a plausible scenario for me.
"A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony."
I got to thinking about this after watching a video linked in a thread over at ARFCOM. In the video, a guy confronts a kid at a gas station who is wearing a "Sons of Anarchy" jacket. Several times the guy basically threatens to take the jacket from the kid if he doesn't take it off. In this situation, if the guy made that statement and began to advance on the kid, is it reasonable for the kid to believe himself in danger of great bodily harm? Is a one-on-one barehanded attack sufficient provocation to use a CCW weapon? Does it vary from person to person? Is someone with some medical condition that could kill or cripple them in a fight more justified in using deadly force than someone relatively young and healthy or are they equal?
I'll add that although I've had my CCW for 9+ years, I've never carried even once so this is more an academic question than a plausible scenario for me.