I’m against hate crime laws simply for the fact that almost any violent act is motivated, at least in part, by hatred for your fellow man.

Making a new law that you can tack on to laws that already exist, and can be used at your discretion in seeking prison time for them, just screams abuse. If you don’t think murderers, violent offenders, etc. are getting enough jail time, then increase the sentence limitations of the applicable laws.

I mean, that’s what sentencing is for in the first place, to determine just how much time you need in a hole somewhere for what you did and why you did it.

If a white guy kills a black guy, if a black guy kills a white guy, if a Jew kills a homosexual, it’s all the same. It’s murder. I don’t care if he’s with the Ku Klux Klan, Black Panthers, an Hispanic gang, etc. If he did it because he’s a sick, sadistic sociopath, then give him the max WITHOUT parole. And increase the applicable max, if you need to, for the charge of second/first-degree murder. But don’t start a horse and pony, “racially-motivated crime” show about it, and charge him doubly for the same act.