Am I the only one who doesn't care whether Anderson Lee Aldrich meant to commit a hate crime when he killed those people?

I am concerned because the guy somehow was not charged with a pretty serious crime last year (bomb threat). And his granddad apparently is an ultra-MAGA politician. So because he was not charged and his record wiped, he was allowed to legally purchase guns...

Shows me once again that Republicans want to go absolutely NOTHING to curb mass shootings.

It matters procedurally. Classification allows the government to ask for special funding, to track this at the Federal Level, as opposed to keeping these incidents buried at the local level.

Legally there might not be a difference, socially there is.
There was a similar question in my country about femicide, does it count as worse than murder? The truth is legally femicide is just homicide. Some people might believe that changing the legal status will contribute to equality, personally I don't have enough knowledge on the matter to have an opinion.
Although the motive is important in many legal cases but could result in us talking about details, like him getting 5 more years or something.

Yeah because the question is how scared other LBGT+ people should be.

Not necessarily. Insanity pleas happen. If a hate crime was proven I believe that would negate an insanity plea because "hate" is not considered a mental illness. But I believe insanity pleas are a state by state thing. I do know that sexual orientation is protected in CO under hate crime laws.

His GOP State Assembly grandfather should also be investigated. Did the Trump supporting republican from San Diego put his grandson up to commit murder?

Identifying his motivation could highlight a larger problem. But I know what you mean, just lock him up forever.

I’m really afraid he will get by with this and wind up working for Boebert.

It matters.

I've always been of two minds about that. Someone comes up and sucker punches you, what do you care what's on his mind? Did he hit me because I was straight? What then?