re: Robber with AK-47 might not live to regret his decisions/Dallas

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Also you have the fact that generally speaking unless you're in close quarters, approaching a guy with an AK in a parking lot could turn out badly (just on range alone) for the CCL holder.

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Whether it was a legal shoot or not is one thing, but there is no denying that it was a risky and frankly stupid decision, unless he really did have his wife coming to meet him.

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That’s because Texas penal code contains an unusual provision that grants citizens the right to use deadly force to prevent someone “who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property.”

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God Bless Texas

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Texas penal code contains an unusual provision that grants citizens the right to use deadly force to prevent someone “who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property.”

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Louisiana needs to adopt this.

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Incorrect, you legally have right to shoot someone if they put your life or someone else's life in danger. They teach this in conceal carry training courses. At least this is what the state trooper taught me in the course I took.

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Did anyone here take a Texas CCL class?

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He's going to jail

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Uh no.

That's why he called out first instead of shooting right away. As soon as the robber pointed his gun at the customer, the customer had every right legally to kill the robber.

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Some of you have never attended the Conceal Carry class.

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Some of you assume the laws of one state are the same as the laws of every other state.

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Oddibe

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Was just coming to post the same except from that TIME article. Apparently the guy is justified whether his wife was coming or not.

That being said, these are some pretty fricked up situations that were acquitted under that law:

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On Christmas Eve in 2009, Ezekiel Gilbert paid an escort he found on Craigslist $150 for what he thought would be sex. Instead, according to the San Antonio Express-News, 23-year-old Lenora Frago left his apartment after about 20 minutes without consummating the act. Gilbert, now 30, followed her to a car with a gun and shot her in the neck through the passenger-side window. Frago became paralyzed, and died about seven months later. Gilbert admitted to shooting her but contended that he did not intend to kill.

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Texas law also justifies killing to protect others’ property. In 2007, a man told 14 times by a 911 operator to remain inside during a robbery gunned down two thieves fleeing from his neighbor’s house. (“There’s no property worth shooting somebody over, OK?” the operator said on the call. The shooter’s response: “The law has been changed….Here it goes, buddy! You hear the shotgun clickin’ and I’m goin’!”) He was acquitted the next year.

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Fearing for your life or the life of others is one thing. Shooting and killing someone a robber as they leave the scene is quite another, and I hate a thief.

Give that man a free All Star Special

Awesome!