Excerpts from OP's cross with Nel.
Nel: Ready to shoot, if you saw something you would have just pulled the trigger?
OP:
I am not sure, my lady.
Nel: And if you saw something, what would you have done?
OP:
I am not sure, my lady. I just wanted to protect Reeva and myself. I screamed at the intruders to get out of my house.
Nel: The safety was off and you wanted to shoot someone. If you saw someone you were ready to shoot.
OP:
I don't agree, I never wanted to shoot someone.
Nel: IF you were confronted by somebody you would have fired?
OP:
I am not sure, my lady. That was not the situation I was dealt with.
Nel: When you walked down the passage, the gun was ready. Any movement and you would have fired?
OP:
I am not sure. In a hypothetical environment.
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Nel: But you rushed down the passage.
OP: My lady, I felt threatened, I wanted to protect Reeva.
Nel: I found that strange. Instinct would have been to make sure Reeva was safe.
OP:
My lady, not every body has the same instinct.
Nel: You went there to shoot somebody?
OP:
That is not true. My intention was to make the person flee. I wanted to protect Reeva and myself.
It seems to me that J Masipa has accepted OP's shooting as negligent but accidental, that he never intended to kill anyone. That he shot at the door, not directly at a person, that he had no idea where those bullets would land.
Under cross examination, OP is determined to prove to m'lady he's not sure he would shoot at a person, so I've looked over this again and OP is basically saying those shots were warning shots, he wanted the intruder to flee.
Sorry, I might be bonkers but I think OP and J. Masipa are on the same wave length. JMO
http://news.sky.com/story/1240765/oscar-pistorius-trial-court-transcript