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

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bullshite. The public needs to be protected from anyone who kills someone. Period. We don't need to reinvent the wheel and pretend that killing someone of a certain profession or race or sexual orientation is worse or more injurious to the public that killing a random joe who isn't gay, black or a cop.

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You don't understand the concept. The intent of a murder is important. The intent gives you an idea of the mental state of a person and their likelihood to kill again. Compare a person who kidnaps a random woman that he does not know and kills her with a man that kills his wife for filing divorce papers. Both are wrong, and both get murder charges. But is the man that kills his wife as dangerous to the public as the man that kills for no reason? That's the intent of my definition of hate crime laws. It's a distinction that allows us to put dangerous people away for longer