When did the last actual lynching occur in the US?
You can imagine a bill like that popping up as an urgent matter in Congress if there was a sudden rise in lynchings… or attempted lynchings… or threats of lynchings.
What is this, 1919?
Answered my own question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching#United_States
>The murder of James Craig Anderson in Mississippi in 2011 was the last recorded fatal lynching in the United States.
Well then! Good thing we are banning it then. Imagine all the lives we will save!
Maybe we should ask Congress to ban bloodletting too.