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NcongruNt wrote:As I mentioned in the reasons I stated above, though - I wouldn't call it "just like" this situation.

You're right, the video shows no one in line. I guess I was going by the original question of "You are in line at Wal-Mart and this happens."

If I was a lot closer to this BG who is crazy enough to rob the store with people waiting in line, my odds of drawing would go up dramatically. The part in §9.33 about "reasonably believes that his intervention is immediately necessary to protect the third person" would have been satisfied, as far as I'm concerned.

http://www.texasshooting.com/TexasCHL_F ... a+shooting

Remember that CHL shooting in Oklahoma that we talked about a couple of weeks ago? That shooting was just like this one where the CHL was in line and 2 robbers came in and one stuck a gun to the head of the clerk. He snuck out his gun and shot them. He faces no charges for doing that. Same thing goes here in Texas:

txinvestigator wrote:Texas Penal Code
§9.33. Defense of third person.

A person is justified in using force or deadly force against
another to protect a third person if:

(1) under the circumstances as the actor reasonably believes
them to be, the actor would be justified under Section 9.31 or 9.32
in using force or deadly force to protect himself against the unlawful
force or unlawful deadly force he reasonably believes to be
threatening the third person he seeks to protect; and

(2) the actor reasonably believes that his intervention is
immediately necessary to protect the third person.

[edited for clarity]