A bill sponsored by a Republican state senator set for a vote Monday would allow business owners or their employees to use deadly force to defend their property against smash-and-grab robbers if the robber possessed a dangerous weapon.
A bill sponsored by a Republican state senator set for a vote on March 7 would allow business owners or their employees to use deadly force to defend their property against smash-and-grab robbers if the robber possessed a dangerous weapon.say the legislation is so broadly written that it would allow someone to shoot and kill someone just for scrawling graffiti on a wall while having something that might be deemed a weapon.
"Sadly we have become all too familiar with the looting and smash and grab thefts that have occurred across the country as a result, and has resulted in violence and property damage," Ugenti-Rita said during a committee hearing last month. "I believe we need to strengthen our laws so that business owners will have a legal justification for using physical force or deadly force when defending their property.
She said the reality is that businesses are the livelihoods of business owners and their employees and they should be able to defend them like they can their own home, although she said killing someone to stop the crime should be a last resort. But Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and K.M. Bell of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona worried that the shield given to a property owner who uses deadly force is overly broad. And they noted that it applies to any property, not just a business that is being robbed.
"This would in effect allow members of the public to impose the death penalty for the spraying of graffiti," Bell told the panel.
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