On Crime & Hate

I was going to write a longer post on the subject of hate crime, but then I saw this...

Taken from http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/hatecrimes/:

"Section 319 deals with publicly stirring up or inciting hatred against an identifiable group based on colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation. It is illegal to communicate hatred in a public place by telephone, broadcast or through other audio or visual means. The same section protects people from being charged with a hate crime if their statements are truthful or the expression of a religious opinion." (emphasis added)

No. Just no. All kinds of no.

So you're writing a movie...

... and you're coming up on the very last scene in Act Three, and you think to yourself, "This would be a nice place for a little concluding narration." Which of the following would you choose to have your protagonist say?

1) "I don't know about heaven, but I do believe in angels."

2) "The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over."

Am I alone in thinking that the choice is obvious? That one of these chunks of dialogue is far, far superior to the other?

I feel like those responsible were thinking: "I was a Ninja. My Kung Fu was strong."

But the truth is: "I wasn't kidding anyone. At best, I was Superman on Kryptonite."

To those who know, let us all take a moment of silence to remember the lost and the damned. To those situated so blissfully in ignorance, don't go looking for heartbreak. You won't find anything there worth watching.