Mathew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill Passes House of Representative

It is horrible that we live somewhere where these things happen. In this bill it states that the feds will step in the investigation if local agencies refuse to look into them. I didn’t know that these agencies had an option of refusing to follow a case. Hate crimes can occur cased on someone’s race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and more. It is about time that we have someone working to protect minorities. Hate crimes are so brutal, especially the whole case involving Mathew Shepard. It is amazing how police can say that it occurred during the process of the robbery when he was solely picked out and beaten to death. How does a robbery involve someone being beaten to death, I though robberies involved guns and money. I know here where I am from; hate crimes are more common than we know. They even occur at school, which is really sad. Bullying is just a milder, well not always, form of a hate crime. Just because someone believes that they are superior to another person does not give them a reason to harm or kill someone. If you do not like gay people then just ignore them, do nt go out of your way to kill them, seriously, what good could come of that, one less gay person? Really, what good is that going to do, you’ll either go to jail or be punished or have a all the gay people wanting to hunt you down? Some people just need to suck it up and get used to the new times. There are gay people, hell it was even rumored that President Lincoln was gay. As far as I know, there have always been gay people, and there probably will always be gay people, so accept it. Killing one gay person really isn’t going to do a thing. Hate crimes are ridiculous; all you are doing is eliminating one person out of a plethora of people, why would someone risk their freedom for that?