What even is this?

Ummm… murder is illegal.
The only three black Americans in the United States Senate — Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Tim Scott — will introduce a bipartisan bill Friday to make lynching, defined as “the willful act of murder by a collection of people assembled with the intention of committing an act of violence upon any person,” unlawful at the federal level.
Has a crop of lynchings sprung up all over the country?
Is murder not already illegal?
Do they not have better things to do than making murder illegal again?
Is this just some kind of SJW grandstanding? (Yes)
The bill from Harris and Booker, both possible candidates for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, and Scott, a South Carolina Republican, will make the law that lynching is punishable as a hate crime.
“Both possible candidates for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.”
There you go.
“Lynching is a dark, despicable part of our history, and we must acknowledge that, lest we repeat it,” said Harris, who announced her intention to introduce the legislation. “From 1882 to 1986, there have been 200 attempts that have failed to get Congress to pass federal anti-lynching legislation. It’s time for that to change.”
The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 comes on the heels of the erection of a national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, known as the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
“It is never too late for our nation to express our sorrow for the decades of racial terror that traumatized millions in this country,” said Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and the founder of the lynching memorial. “Passing an anti-lynching law is not just about who we were decades ago, it’s a statement about who we are now that is relevant, important and timely.”
Sooo what she’s saying is lynching is murder. Murder is ILLEGAL. But unless we make Lynching illegal AGAIN, history will repeat itself and everyone will start lynching each other.
Got it.
But um… if the laws against MURDER won’t stop lynchings… why would laws against lynchings (which is murder) stop these hypothetical lynchings of the future?
Stopping murder isn’t the point. This is a pat on the back kind of thing.
Welcome to the beginnings of the 2020 presidential race.