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This country is in bad shape if we have to depend on 17 yo boys to protect cars lots from protesters wanting to set buildings on fire , break windows of businesses to steal merchandise.
He wanted to help so he got a friend to buy his gun and hide it.
Who taught him how to be a responsible man? Not the absentee father. Not the friend or his father. Not the car lot owner.
This country is in very bad shape.
Democrat mobs were able to loot and burn across the country for an extended period of time while most of the country, including the police and military stood by and allowed it to happen.
The average law abiding pro-America citizen (myself included), saw these events unfolding and sat at home and did nothing out of fear and/or laziness.
This kid risked his life to defend his country from democrat terrorists, when doing so was an unpopular option. A true hero, we need many, many more like him if this country is going to survive.
Last year before the election, Democrats tried to distance themselves from the criminal elements in their BLM "protests". They claimed outside agitators, not activists, showed up at their protests to turn their peaceful protests into riots. Now, after the election, the Democrats fully embrace the criminals. In 2022, voters will not forget which politicians criticized the Rittenhouse verdict.
The motivation behind it doesn't warrant a different name, charge or harsher punishment.
I've been torn on this issue, but ultimately agree with you. Why should someone who assaults someone for a non-protected class reason get less time than someone who assaults someone on account of their racial, gender, etc. background?
Apparently a crime against someone of a different race is far more dangerous than a crime against someone of the same race.
Technically that is correct. Not to the individual, but to the government.
I don't know if you're aware of this friend, but a lot of people literally want a race war and the dissolution of the United States.
The only thing that sustains this country as it is, is that people are terrified of going to prison for the rest of their lives where they'll probably be murdered by the other colored inmates.
The United States is an artificial country held together by force.
I've been torn on this issue, but ultimately agree with you. Why should someone who assaults someone for a non-protected class reason get less time than someone who assaults someone on account of their racial, gender, etc. background?
I am a little torn on this as well. I think ultimately the reason may be the effect it has on others of the particular class. For example, with all the anti-Asian violence going on right now many older Asians are wary of going out alone. Again, I'm torn, but I think this aspect may be part of the reason a hate crime is treated more harshly than the same crime committed for a different reason. It is also a statement of societal values. Criminal statutes are full of distinctions based on values. We punish first degree murder more harshly than second degree because despite the fact the victim is just as dead we believe certain circumstances are worse and raise a murder from second degree to first degree.
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