Yeah, Revolting cat! ... if the pharmacist hadn’t stepped over him one time on the way out of the store, and then stepped over him a second time, on the way back into the store, and walked to the other counter to get another gun (the first one was out of bullets), and then walked back calmly to the guy on the floor (going up to him on the floor for the “third time”) ... and then proceeded to empty the second gun into him while laying on the floor — well ... yes ... the pharmacist would have had no problem.
Give him a medal. He put one in Hades and three in prison.
What was the alternative: let them go and they would never be caught, or caught after a two dozen robberies and lightly sentenced for the one they were caught for. That is the typical story across this country, deny it all you want.
In the “humane” philosophy of the day, such as, presumably, yours, for all you can protest, is to NOT defend oneself during a robbery, which policy has caught on, and has made an armed robbery, like a burglary, a safe crime to commit, a sure bet.
If the pharmacist overreacted, then so what, he was under stress as are most of our armed personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, that is the nature of the game, there or on the streets of this nation. The Taliban are no better or worse than the ghetto barbarians like your favorite victim Antwon.