Oklahoma is OK with me, thanks to its Castle Law, which gave Sarah Dawn McKinley the right to shoot dead the armed SOB who was trying to break into her house the other night:
An Oklahoma 911 operator calmly advised a recently widowed mother who asked if it was permissible to shoot an intruder, officials said Wednesday.
“I’ve got two guns in my hand. Is it OK to shoot him if he comes in this door?” asked Sarah Dawn McKinley of Blanchard.
“Well, you have to do whatever you can do to protect yourself,” dispatcher Diane Graham responded during the incident on New Year’s Eve day. “I can’t tell you that you can do that, but you do what you have to do to protect your baby.”
In the end, McKinley, 18, fired a 12-gauge shotgun and killed Justin Shane Martin after he entered her residence, according to a Blanchard Police Department affidavit filed in court Wednesday.
McKinley’s husband died of cancer on Christmas Day. She was at home alone with her three-month-old son when these two thugs tried to break in. It’s a shame she had to shoot him, but good for her for having the courage to do so, and good on Oklahoma for having the castle law. Every state should.
