Oklahoma is a bad place for bad guys. Metro homeowner shoots alleged intruder Friday night | KFOR Oklahoma City
Officials said it appeared to be a first-degree burglary, possibly turned self-defense.
Police said the suspect was shot in his upper torso; they didn’t have an update on his condition.
The homeowner was not injured.
Oklahoma has what's been called an extreme form of the Castle Doctrine, called Make My Day. That is how it was phrased when the law, overturning the judge-invented mandate for the "duty to retreat" in your own home. (Details at this link.)
I'm not a lawyer, but the Castle Doctrine is a long-standing tradition in the West, even if it has been abandoned by the UK and Europe. Click that 2nd link for an Oklahoma lawyer's explanation of self-defense laws.
Self-defense is a human right, and Oklahoma City is a long way from NYC.
On the judge-invented duty to retreat. No politician ever voted for a law that says you cannot defend your family in your own home. Prosecutors and judges, who hate self-defense (You must rely on the State, even for things it cannot provide) created that "duty" out of whole cloth.
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