re: Louisiana's 'Blue Lives Matter Bill' Under Attack

My argument for sentencing of criminals is that the sentence should be based on how long we can reasonably estimate that we need to protect the public from this person.

Someone who kills another person based solely on their classification (black, white, man, woman, police officer, catholic, Muslim, etc) is a threat to that entire group of people, therefore the public needs far more protection from that person. So that person should be sentenced much more harshly. Which is my reasoning for hate crime law.

However, the important distinction is that ANY classification should count for this. So a serial killer (someone who targets women that he doesn't know) is committing hate crimes