[cripplecreek]

That’s why it irritates me so much when conservatives scream about people needing to be charged with hate crimes.

I realize a double standard is often applied but you don’t fix it by applying a bad law equally.

BTW 29 days and counting since the “hate crime” beating of a lesbian in Ypsilanti Michigan and still no more news.

[Olog-hai]

How many conservatives talk about hate crime charges? Are these of the type that oppose the fourteenth amendment in general?

“Hate crime” is criminalizing thought. I bet not a single Founding Father would support the criminalization of thought.

[Second Amendment First]

I realize a double standard is often applied but you don’t fix it by applying a bad law equally.

I generally agree with you that hate crime statutes are bad. However I also believe that the law should be equally enforced; "equal protection under the law".

Firearms laws were Jim Crow era laws to prevent blacks from access to guns. Those laws started to be fixed when the cops started enforcing them against whites as well.

[READINABLUESTATE]

“I realize a double standard is often applied but you don’t fix it by applying a bad law equally.”

The best way to force the repeal of a bad law is strict enforcement.

[chesley]

I realize a double standard is often applied but you don’t fix it by applying a bad law equally

This may be true, but you don't play at a handicap when the other team is stronger.

Besides, they need to be Alinskyed, and held to their own rules.