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I want to keep my CCW. This is bad, real bad

I doubt you have a CPL. If you're not willing to use it to eliminate a threat then why have one, other than to brag to your buddies that you have one?

Based on your comments on this thread, I suspect that if you had been in that restaurant, you would have been scared shitless not knowing what to do even tho you might have been carrying........

Here is some good advice for you trigger happy CCW's:

In most states, in order to use deadly force to stop a threat you must reasonably believe that your life is somehow in immediate danger. Because of this there are likely only a very few select circumstances where you’d be justified in shooting a person in the back as they fled the scene of their crime, and your ego is not one of them. No matter how badly they hurt your feelings or ego by robbing you, once the threat is over there is no longer an imminent threat of death, serious bodily injury, kidnapping, or sexual abuse. Since there is no longer an imminent threat, deadly force in defense of your ego is not recommended regardless of how you feel about that person.

At this point, it’s probably a better idea to pull your phone out instead of your gun and dial 911 to report the crime to the police, to start them on their job. Fill them in on what happened, what the crime was, what he was wearing, if he had any weapons, etc.

The argument can be made, unless he had turned around and began slinging bullets in your general direction, that the threat to you was over and that you should not have shot the person. Once that argument is made, it’s not very hard to get to the next argument, which is that you just wanted to kill someone.

Should You Shoot Someone In The Back As They Flee?