As a once-kid who used to take shortcuts across open ranch land, this bill would give land owners a license to kill:
The bill comes as an Arizona rancher awaits trial after he was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault for killing 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Butimea after he shot at a group of unarmed migrants walking through his 170-acre ranch outside of Nogales. Under its provisions, 73-year-old George Alan Kelly would have been justified for allegedly killing any of the migrants.
If this gets passed, you know someones gonna shoot a rancher, use the excuse of “He looked illegal”, and the right wingers will go into nuclear fucking melt down over their laws being used against them.
Ehhh, it could happen by accident. But I’ve found that the type of person to protest a law like this isn’t the same type of person to shoot a Republican to make a point about a shitty law.
Or an Uber driver, or the fucking mailman, ups, someone lost and turning around on the highway.
Tragically, that does happen.. Fortunately, New York has sane laws when it comes to killing people (for now) and he was convicted of murder.
The law allows you to shoot anyone who is trespassing on your property (which is absolutely terrifying). It’s not specific to illegal immigrants and couldn’t be used on someone else’s property. So shooting a rancher on their property would still be illegal.