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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kiyot" data-source="post: 1504157" data-attributes="member: 627"><p>In all honesty, if I was in the store where a robbery with a gun was going down I would feel as though my life was in danger, I have no where to go except through the door to get away from the situation which would be going right by the BG.  If he was to shoot the clerk my thought is he would next take out any witnesses.  Feeling as though my life was in danger I would feel as though using deadly force would be justified, even shooting him in the back.  In regards to the sporting comment, anyone in this world that says you have to give the guy committing a felony that is putting my life and others in danger a sporting chance to defend his life from a law abiding citizen that wants to go home to his family is absolutely insane.  I think in Oklahoma that the general mindset of a jury and public would agree that it's justified.  I've read on here that essentially you step into the shoes of the victim you are standing up for, which means if that person had no right to use deadly force then neither did you regardless of what you thought was going on.  So in an armed robbery scenario it's pretty easy to see what is going on, some kind of armed confrontation in a parking lot is totally different.  It could be someone else defending themselves from the person you are stepping in to "help out"</p></blockquote><p></p>