Your comparisons are mass murder vs one death or one beating.

If a group of people went around with guns and shot up a bunch of random people in a town for no good reason, or just randomly killed people like the Manson family do you really think people would say "Well gee that's not as bad."

Not a chance.

Again though... I ask you.  If someone kills someone because they're gay, and someone else kills someone because they just felt like killing someone...  What other crimes does the second person have to comit to be "just as bad"

I can give you two personal experiences that one could be consider racial that was done unintentionally by me and that I was unware of.  I sometimes called Japanese by their shorter WW2 name probably because I might have heard it from my Grandpa that happen to fight in WW2 on a destroyer against the Japanese.  Anyways, I was then corrected in high school computer lab after I typed it in and the teacher overhearing/seeing which then I was informed I shouldn't use anymore.  Another time I was working at a previous job and happened to say a line from Foghorn leghorn "i said, i said" then I continued on with "now boy, now boy" to two people that happened to be black which then I was informed that wasn't a good term to use to African American.  They eventually realized that I had no clue what I did and I probably did the Foghorn leghorn impersonation a few more times to them goofing off.  I didn't do my research on derogatory terms when I came down to Texas since I grew up in Ohio and never really dealt with any racial prejudice towards any race.

Main point I am trying to make is that the person can get their ass kicked for many reasons or a crime might be committed that wasn't really intentionally hate motivated and to charge them with hate crime felony charges is unjust.

Your comparisons are mass murder vs one death or one beating.

If a group of people went around with guns and shot up a bunch of random people in a town for no good reason, or just randomly killed people like the Manson family do you really think people would say "Well gee that's not as bad."

Not a chance.

Again though... I ask you.  If someone kills someone because they're gay, and someone else kills someone because they just felt like killing someone...  What other crimes does the second person have to comit to be "just as bad"

I stopped reading after that word. Commiting a crime unintentionally leads to  totally different legal outcome. There is no such thing as an unintentional hate crime. Like MrBubbles said, you can't accidentally hate someone.

You should also know that prosecuters rarely try to charge someone with a hate crime if they don't have solid evidence that the primary motive was hate. A hate crime is all about the motive, not about the act or who the victim is. Beating up someone who is black isn't a hate crime, if all you wanted was to steal his wallet. Similarly, beating up a straight guy because you think he's gay and you hate gay people is still a hate crime.

When people target a specific group it creates fear within that group. People in that group will be aware that they are at a higher risk of being targeted and it leads to stress, depression and fear.

I am a white male living in Canada. While I'm aware that I could potentially be the target of a random act of violence I know that the chances are very low and I carry on my life without giving much thought to the safety of my family.

If I were a black man living in Mississipi in the 1960s or a Jewish man living in Germany in 1938, I would probably be much more concerned for my safety and that of my family.

A young gay man in Ottawa where I'm from killed himself about a month ago. He was the only openly gay man at his school and was the target of harrasement and bullying. While bullying anyone is wrong, this guy new that he would be a target for the next few years of his life because he was gay and thought that it would be a better option to kill himself then face a few more years of abuse.

Your comparisons are mass murder vs one death or one beating. Historically, most cases of genocide can be linked to extreme racism.

I'm really finding it challenging that people can't seem to understand the harm that discrimination can cause.

Wouldn't a person like that be classified as 'criminally insane'?

Where do you draw the line?  Pretty soon anyone that gets beat up can call it a hate crime.  You know what?  They all are hate crimes because the person obviously dislikes the person based on something hence them beating them up.  Might as well include every race, sex, religion, sexual preference, etc into hate crimes...   Looking for equality right?  Then why not treat everyone equal and not make it more serious of a crime based on what race, sexual preference, religion, etc you are.  I'll probably draw some flak on this but I just want to know where the fuck do you draw the line?

Not nessisairly.  Being Criminally insane means you don't realize your actions are wrong.  People are perfectly capable of knowing that and killing people anyway.  Like Geoffery Dahmer who claimed he knew it was wrong but figured there was no god, so why not kill people.

Geoffrey Dahmer? Don't you mean the gay guy who killed other gay men because his fundementalist religious parents taught him to be self hating and to hate homosexuals? I googled him and nothing regarding him killing people 'because there was no god' is mentioned.

Then you probably didn't google very hard....  I mean... straight from the horses mouth on this one...

Heck, the way they seem to state it, they weren't very relgious at all, and his father was an atheist for many years.