Make My Day Law - Stand Your Ground Law

Folk Hero or Killer: Druggist Who Killed Robber

by ABCNews.com

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"There is no gray area," Shannon said. One caller "said he should have put all the shots in the head."

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The video shows two men bursting in, one of them pointing a gun at Ersland and two women working with the druggist behind the counter. Ersland fires a pistol, driving the gunman from the store and hitting Parker in the head as he puts on a ski mask.

But many of those who have seen the video of the May 19 robbery attempt at Reliable Discount Pharmacy have concluded the teenager in the ski mask got what he deserved.

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.

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Robber was already shot in the head; seems the pharmacist merely finished the job....How many times do we see police gunshot suspects being hit or having more than a dozen bullets fired at them? I suspect a jury trial won't win this prosecutor any points. However, at least the accomplices have been charged and will probably be convicted of more serious charges.

De Nuclearizing North Korea

(CNN) -- The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday at an international conference.

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"We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region -- or on us," said Gates, speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore.

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The United States would hold North Korea "fully accountable for the consequences" if the secretive state were to provide nuclear weapons or material to other nations or groups, Gates warned.

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"Dependent on the charity of the international community to alleviate the hunger and suffering of its people, North Korea's leadership has chosen to focus the North's limited energy and resources on a reckless and ultimately self-destructive quest for nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles," Gates said. Learn more about the situation »

Tourists Die--Pufferfish Poisoning?? Similarities Involved

Pufferfish Poisoning in Thailand

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A recent news report commented upon the fact that vendors in Thailand have been selling puffer fish meat and calling it salmon. According to a reporting physician in Thailand, this disguised (dyed in some cases) puffer fish meat has caused at least 15 deaths over the past year.

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The toxin is found in the entire fish (including the flesh, or "meat"), with greatest concentration in the liver, intestines, reproductive organs, and skin. After the victim has eaten the fish, symptoms can occur as quickly as 10 minutes later or be delayed by a few hours. These include numbness and tingling around the mouth, lightheadedness, drooling, sweating, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, weakness, difficulty walking, paralysis, difficulty breathing, and collapse. As noted above, this ingestion can be fatal. Tetrodotoxin is also found in other animals; for instance, it is the toxin responsible for the potentially lethal bite of the Indo-Pacific blue-ringed octopus.

GOING TOO FAR

Texas Woman Told to Remove 'Offensive' American Flag From Office

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So when McLucas arrived at work at a Texas hospital last Friday, she was stunned to be told that the Stars and Stripes she had hung in her office in advance of Memorial Day were offensive, and that the flag had been removed.

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McLucas, a supervisor at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield, Texas, had displayed the 3-by-5-foot flag in the office she shares with the hospital’s three other supervisors. McLucas said one of her colleagues, a woman who immigrated to the United States from Africa 14 years ago, complained about the flag to upper management, and the hospital decided to take down the flag.

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"I was told that as long as my flag offended one person, it would be taken down," McLucas said.

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"I went to the office to retrieve it and found the flag wrapped around the pole, sitting in the corner on the ground. I was speechless."