Having spent much of my life there, this looks like Texas where if you steal someone's shit, you're liable to get shot.

We lived outside of Dallas in a rural setting. One old woman down the street thought there were burglars on her property and she got her gun prepared to defend but told me "I had to wait for them to come through the door before I could shoot." Fortunately it never got to that point.

People in Texas are serious about protecting their property and the law absolutely allows it.