H.R. 35 Research




After reading the bill, I think the most surprising idea to me was the fact that lynching before the bill was technically legal. I know it was illegal to assault another or even to murder them even a little back then, but to learn that lynching was not counted int he same way? Unbelievable. 

My mind began to wander a little on specific dates, though the idea was still very interesting that the trail of the bill's happening extended to more recent times of 2017. I would have thought the problem would have been taken care of long before that.

I'm curious as to why a federal law is necessary, murder is already a crime in every state. KILLING someone anywhere is a crime, why does it matter what anything of race or what the act is supposedly called having anything to do with the horrible act?

In all honesty, I don't see the act as anything but wrong, unless someone has an utter atrocity there is no reason to hurt other people based on something as flimsy and unjustifiable as racism, in the name of God, supremacy, or otherwise. All crimes are crimes whether they are in the name of some belief or not.


Main question: Why is a law (or a federal law) about lynching necessary, if murder is already a crime in every state?

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