Hate Crimes
Another horrific hate crime, this time in Alabama (March 6), to go with similar atrocities committed recently in Wyoming and Texas. Time to ratchet up the controls on pickup trucks, log chains, baseball bats, barbed wire and ax handles.
JACK PETERSON
Santa Barbara
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