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Hate crimes typically mean that the perpetrators – the multiple shooters in this case – were motivated by prejudice.

It's often used when a crime is sexist or racist in nature, or homophobic.

Carson had a much simpler definition.

'Well it’s hard to imagine that you would shoot a bunch of people and not hate them, right?' Carson mused. 'You don’t do that to people you love.'

1 posted on 12/03/2015 10:42:51 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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Bye Ben.


2 posted on 12/03/2015 10:44:15 AM PST by FerociousRabbit
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A hate crime generally means that the perpetrators were motivated by prejudice - but a motive hasn't been uncovered for the shooting...

The writer is a bit dim.

3 posted on 12/03/2015 10:45:40 AM PST by marron
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Stupid phrase.


4 posted on 12/03/2015 10:46:05 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I support anything which diminishes the Muslim population.)
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mooselimbs hates everything so I guess he could be right.

islam is a hate group.


5 posted on 12/03/2015 10:47:03 AM PST by boycott (--)
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I call it Jihad.


6 posted on 12/03/2015 10:48:16 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

Golda Meir

There is truth to this.


7 posted on 12/03/2015 10:50:04 AM PST by ThomasThomas (I dream of a world where a chicken can cross the road with out having their motives questioned.)
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'you don't do that to people you love'

What is he, a six year old girl?

8 posted on 12/03/2015 10:51:32 AM PST by montag813
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Can’t argue with Dr.Carson. It was a hateful crime, indeed.

The bigger issue is why “hate crime” is any more heinous than cold-blooded crime. It’s a ridiculous designation.

Recall W’s comment re: the Byrd murder case in Texas, in which the perps had already been convicted of capital murder when federal hate crime laws were discussed: “What do you want to do, kill them twice?”


9 posted on 12/03/2015 10:52:12 AM PST by Jedidah
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I could ask this question on other threads related to this incident. Since the Confederate flag and “Dukes of Hazzard” were considered inappropriate following the Charleston church shooting, what flag or symbol or TV show will now be called out as inappropriate or promotes hatred, etc?


10 posted on 12/03/2015 10:52:51 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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I never liked the liberal designation of a hate crime. If a person is murdered, their life isn’t more valuable because the murderer didn’t like the color of their skin. When Bush was governor and some white guys killed a black guy, reporters were trying to make a big thing out the fact that they weren’t tried for hate crime. He just stated that they received the death penalty, so there was no more justice the victim could’ve received.


11 posted on 12/03/2015 10:53:40 AM PST by Rusty0604
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Hey Carson supporters , Cruz is over there


12 posted on 12/03/2015 10:54:29 AM PST by butlerweave
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Stick a fork in him. He’s done.


14 posted on 12/03/2015 10:59:20 AM PST by cblue55 ("Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants,")
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Barack Obama:

"We don't know at this point the extent of their plans. We do not know their motivations"


16 posted on 12/03/2015 10:59:58 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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Ben who?


18 posted on 12/03/2015 11:01:56 AM PST by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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He’s still stuck on stupid.


21 posted on 12/03/2015 11:07:56 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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It WAS a hate crime..they released the names of one of the victims here, he was Jewish..they have photos of him from his facebook page attending his son’s Bar Mitzvah..I wonder if the Jihadist scum bag knew there were Jews at this meeting


22 posted on 12/03/2015 11:09:39 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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Ben is taking Stupid Lessons from Jeb.


25 posted on 12/03/2015 11:38:32 AM PST by Zathras
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I agree. Islam hates the rest of the world, so......hate crime.


28 posted on 12/03/2015 12:20:24 PM PST by ALASKA (Disgusted.....)
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SDA cult member Carson misspoke. He meant to say the terrorist attack was a “hate climate change crime.”


29 posted on 12/03/2015 12:24:40 PM PST by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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Thought crime categorizations are a Progressive invention.
A man who hates political correctness should know this.


30 posted on 12/03/2015 12:35:20 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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