Game of "Knockout" Targeting Strangers

[rondog]

No one should be physically assaulted. period.

adding things to make things MORE ILLEGAL pisses me off. assaulting someone is wrong. I dont care if they are gay, straight, transgender, questioning, black, white, hindu, muslim, chinese, austalian, American, whatever. All of these crimes should just focus on the fact that they are assault. Regardless of anything else.

Hear, hear! And anyone who gets assaulted like that should be able to defend themselves without fear of persecution.

[hatidua]

anyone who gets assaulted like that should be able to defend themselves without fear of persecution.

-or prosecution either.

[Skip]

No one should be physically assaulted. period.

adding things to make things MORE ILLEGAL pisses me off. assaulting someone is wrong. I dont care if they are gay, straight, transgender, questioning, black, white, hindu, muslim, chinese, austalian, American, whatever. All of these crimes should just focus on the fact that they are assault. Regardless of anything else.

Exactly.

But this business of Federal Hate Crime charges applies special penalties with minimum sentences. So if we are going to have these laws they should be equally applied to protect everyone. Otherwise, like you said, they should be scrapped.

The status quo incentivizes assault of a particular group--which is exactly what Obama/Holder want.