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This one is slightly different from the Oklahoman pharmacist (who I wish had not been convicted. . . as the Marines have been known to say, "If he's worth shooting once, he's worth shooting twice).

The clerk in this scenario did not have his own gun. We can't assume (unless one of the articles I didn't read mentioned it) that he has EVER held a gun before. He was a complete novice.

My first CHL instructor was a chief of police with decades of LEO experience. We were having a discussion about tactics and he was advocating a "fire twice, reassess the threat" approach. His point was that - even if we're in the "right" - we're going to have to account for every action we took, including every bullet that went though the pipe. He said that many untrained people are likely to keep shooting until the gun stops going BOOM. . . joking that when you reload to pump a second magazine of ammo through an already stopped BG, that's when you'll really have a hard time explaining yourself to a jury.

In this case, the BG is unfortunate that he brought so much ammo. If he'd had a J-frame he might have escaped with only five bullet holes.

No tears are being shed here.