By: Lynn Green
Before you do anything else, watch this video. Then read what I have to say:
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Okay, you just witnessed TWO MASKED THUGS walk into a pharmacy, guns in tow and drawn with an obvious threat to murder those in the pharmacy if their thuggish criminal demands were not met.
You also witnessed a human being, a pharmacist named Jerome Ersland defend his own life and the life of others in that pharmacy by turning the tables on the criminals. First he shot one of the thugs in the head and he chased the other one out of the store. The big, bad criminal was running so fast that he could not be caught.
What you witnessed after that is what got Jerome Ersland charged with first degree murder. He went behind the counter, got a second gun and proceeded to pump five more bullets into the teen who was laying on the floor with a bullet already in his brain.
Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I am a conservative. You know that I am pro-victim and you know that I despise criminal thugs. They will devastate you as quick as look at you—for your own property that you worked hard for. AND, they will not hesitate to kill you.
There is no doubt in my mind that had Mr. Ersland not shot the gun, he’d be a dead man at this very moment. No doubt.
The NAACP is all over this. His mother is crying about her “baby” being shot to death. But I have question for the NAACP and the mother of the late 16 year old, Antwun Parker. WHERE WERE YOU when this thug was engaging in his criminal lifestyle? WHERE WERE YOU? And what would you have done had he and his alleged pal, 14 year old gun wielding Jevontia Ingram, murdered the people in the store? Would there have been support for the victims of these two thugs?
I wish Mr. Ersland well. Happy that someone sprung him out of jail. Hope that the survivor, alleged partner, Jevontia Ingram spends MANY years in jail (What mother would give her son such a weird name?) Rest in peace to the young man and his family.
When you live by the sword, you will die by the sword.
My husband does not agree with me. He said that the pharmacist was no better than the criminals in this situation. I don’t know. When you are in fear of your life and the adrenalin is pumping, there is no end to what a person might do.
What do you all think?
Under Oklahoma’s “Make My Day Law” — passed in the late 1980s and named for one of Clint Eastwood’s most famous movie lines — people can use deadly force when they feel threatened by an intruder inside their homes. In 2006, Oklahoma’s “Stand Your Ground Law” extended that to anywhere a citizen has the right to be, such as a car or office.
“It’s a ‘Make-My-Day’ case,” Box said. “This guy came in, your money or your life. Mr. Ersland said, `You’re not taking my life.’” The gunman “forfeited his life.” SOURCE
GO HERE to see Javontia’s mother defend his behavior and boast about the fact that she knew it was him who was on the videotape but did not turn him in to “protect” her son.
Hat tip to Colin for story lead