[marktwain]

This is a good lesson to criminals. Crime is a very risky activity. Threatening others with death or great bodily harm is even more risky. It is not worth risking your life to steal $50 dollars.

[ex91B10]

Pulling a Clint Eastwood on shoplifters isn’t a real smart move.

[knarf]

"The chief has mixed feelings about the help officers received from an armed citizen."

Then the chief is not a chief, but a plebe.

[bgill]

This time it worked. Next time, maybe not.

[Future Snake Eater]

Shot out a tire...man, I thought that only worked in the movies. Good on him!

[csvset]

During the pursuit, police confirmed a number of items were discarded from the suspects’ vehicle, including a package of Pop Tarts Toaster Pastries and Q-tips.

From a different story about the incident.

Azle Pop Tart heist goes awry

Four "adults" and they don't have enough cash to buy Pop Tarts and Q-Tips?

[Popman]

Interesting: Since they tried to run him down with their vehicle, their crime turned into a felony. That makes him discharging his weapon legal

So I wonder, if he just fired at their tires if they didn't try to run him down, would he have committed a crime?

[muir_redwoods]

I'm glad the good guys won. I am also glad neither me nor my loved ones were downrange from the shooter. Shooting out the tires on a fleeing felon's car is good movie stuff but a poor decision in real life.

Bullets sometimes do funny things once they've left the barrel.

[Radio Free American?]

Unfortunately many of these thugs don't care about their own and think it's worth taking a life for $50 dollars!

Happens all the time, then we find out the piece of trash has a criminal record that shows they should never have been released to start with and should have been put down instead.

[KeyLargo]

This could have turned out badly for the shooter if someone in the vehicle would have been shot or killed.

This could have been a black eye in the news media for responsible CCW permit holders.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I thin crime is getting more risky by the day. I live in a neighborhood filled with retired military, active duty military, deputy sheriffs and police officers. Just by talking with a lot of my neighbors, I suspect there are approximately 3-4 guns per resident in the neighborhood. Not a good place to practice crime.

[FrankR]

First of all, the availability of food stamps, welfare, and other relief, combined with commiebama's promised "stimulus checks", no one should even need to shoplift groceries.

Then, add attempted murder for trying to run down a citizen with the getaway car, and you have complete justification for whatever force it takes to stop them.

Even though it seems the posters here have dissected the even find every concealable even that "could" have happened (starting to sound like the MSM, coulda, shoulda, woulda, I says Congrats to the shooter.

Too bad he shot out a perfectly good tire...the perps would have made a better target. Only $50 worth, but stealing is stealing.

[Chewbacca]

I would have shot a hole in the radiator and not the tires.
To much risk of a ricochet.

[Shooter 2.5]

Every once in awhile, Texas lives up to it’s reputation.

There’s an Old West saying. We don’t hang horse thieves for stealing horses. We hang horse thieves so others won’t steal horses.

Good shooting, Tex.

[Ditto]

A CC permit does not give you the right to be a cop or to shoot shoplifters (even if we would all love to). It's not a hunting license. Even cops can't shoot unarmed shoplifters. (Unless they have a throw-down handy.)

It only allows you to protect your life or the lives of others from imminent danger.

I hope the guy can prove that he fired because he feared for his life. If he were playing Clint Eastwood, he's in more trouble than the shoplifters.