With the recent murder of Charlie Kirk and that of the kids at the Annunciation Catholic Church, the subject of “hate crime” has come up again. I suggest that people who can’t control the conversation by other, more logical means generally put forward the concept of hate speech. I’ll go further and suggest that we should be removing all hate crime legislation from the books because it is so very arbitrarily enforced.
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Consider this question: Will Robinson be charged with a hate crime? The answer is no, he will not be so charged. Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney at Politico:
Robinson has been charged with three crimes under Utah law: murder, causing bodily injury with a firearm, and obstruction of justice.
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