Exactly right.
The victim did not make a plan and seek out others to cause harm.
The perps did.
I’m sorry, but whatever happens to them, it’s their problem.
Here’s one other aspect. The judge was quick to extrapolate wrong doing on the pharmacist. At the same time, he didn’t extrapolate any possibility of these two coming back to get even if they lived.
If I start firing, someone is going to be dead by the end of it, unless the perp runs quickly enough.
Another consideration, one perp fled the scene while the wounded (?) perp was on the floor. Who knew whether the fleeing perp would return to avenge his partner's injury and/or rescue him? The Pharmacist was perfectly justified in: a) getting another loaded weapon, b) assuming the perp on the floor was still alive and a threat, and 3) assuming that the ROBBER on the floor was still armed.