(01-20-2024, 01:01 PM)SomeJackleg Wrote:(01-20-2024, 05:12 AM)Snarl Wrote: This type of BS is the EXACT reason Nancy Pelosi pushed legislation to prohibit lynching. What they really were trying to do with that isn't about an actual lynching, so much as an effort to punish anyone suggesting that the event be put into play.
refresh my memory, did they include prohibiting firing squads. which i think is much more appropriate sentence for treason.
Only firing squads composed of private citizens, as that falls under the heading of "lynch mob". Government firing squads are still ok, because a government is gonna do what a government is gonna do. One of the perks of making the rules is that you can set the rules aside for yourself.
It was Legislation for Dumbasses, anyhow. Murder is already illegal, so I don't see any way of making it MORE illegal just by passing another law. The intent was just to make lynching a Federal "hate crime", so the Feds could play in the pool, too.
"Hate crime" is itself a dumbassed concept. You don't commit crimes against the folks you love, y'know? So "hate" is kinda already built-in to the concept. The victim won't be any deader just because someone hated them - dead is dead. Nor can any such law make murder any more murderous - murder is murder, and pretty final when you think about it. If the road ends there, trying to drive any further along it just drives right over a cliff.
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