[marktwain]

Texas has some of the most comprehensive defense of self and property laws in the USA.

[ConservativeMind]

If someone steals your stuff, that person’s death should be an option.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Don’t Mess With Texas” isn’t about littering anymore.

[Leaning Right]

> Texas has some of the most comprehensive defense of self and property laws in the USA. <

Yes. But the Houston DA is a Democrat. If she’s woke enough, she can make the shooter’s life miserable. As the old saying goes, the process is the punishment.

[crusty old prospector]

A really nice part of town, like River Oaks.

[BipolarBob]

Most importantly, did she get her phone back?

[Noumenon]

As does Idaho.

[Paladin2]

Did she get her phone back?

[VanShuyten]

“ Willkens said the boyfriend grabbed a gun out of his car and started hitting the man who allegedly took the phone.”

Bad shoot. If he had been carrying at the time, and drew to defend himself, maybe not.

[BlackbirdSST]

...hitting one in the torso and the other one in the torso...

Not a good night to be a torso.

[Nateman]

I would have called the phone. Hard to deny you have when it starts ringing.

[NWFree]

And all of them could have ended up dead in the parking lot. All over a cellphone belonging some dumb woman who didn’t secure it

[ComputerGuy]

Customers Not Permitted Behind Bar
Really

[Chewbarkah]

So it didn’t occur to the waitress or manager to call the HPD and ask for immediate assistance (mention strong-arm robbery in progress, surveillance video of whodunit, perpetrators on scene, “come quick before this escalates”). Take pics of the perpetrators and their vehicles/plates if any. Wait for the cops.

Or be macho and risk the boyfriend’s life over a phone. Either jail or $50,000 in legal expenses coming up for boyfriend. Treating the gunshots will cost the public several hundred thousand dollars.