Did the shop owner do the right thing? We are not sure this is the right thing to do. The smoke shop owner should go to jail? He is defending himself he stabbed a kid, He does not know if he had a gun. This is a hard one and it does not have any right answer at all. The shop owner was going to give him the money until he jumped over the counter. That is when the owner feared for his life and he defended himself and don’t know if the kid goes to jail,