Everyone else in SC can be murdered at will, as usual. And hate crimes are, of course, verboten.

Representative Chip Limehouse has proposed a bill that would use law enforcement to protect servicemen and women in the state, as well as their families. The Charleston Republican wrote the bill after Nidal Hasan killed 13 and injured 30 in Fort Hood. Limehouse says the penalty for such a crime needs to speak measures.

“It makes terrorizing or threatening to terrorize a member of the military or their family a felony in South Carolina, punishable up to 10 years in prison, and up to a $10,000 fine. The threat could be verbally, it could be electronically or written,” says Limehouse.