there is no need for "hate' crime laws.....if you commit a violent crime against someone you should get the max penalty....any violent act against another human being is a hate crime in itself.....and im not talking self defense....
Yea, but hate crimes draw more hate.
and violent crimes dont?....
labeling it with another divider causes more uproar.
Throw race or religion it and another few million people get pissed.
thats the mindset of the more stupid among us....if a guy robs a liqueur store and on the way out he turns and calls the clerk an ethnic slur and shoots the clerk dead,should he get more time than if he just turned and shot the guy dead without saying anything?.......i sure as hell dont think so....in either case life in prison without parole OR if on camera,the death penalty,and i mean within 5 years....none of this 25 years on death row shit....
I used to agree with that --- That we should simply charge the doer for whatever the crime is rather than who the victim is.
BUT, if it had been a "white" church, Dylan Roof would not have murdered the worshipers.
I would also like to think that white supremacists and other rabid right wingers might hesitate to do the crime if they knew the charge would be more but I doubt that.
Its not just that haters gotta hate. Its that these haters are down right crazy.