How stupid are the gun nuts? Calling a gun a "deadly weapon", "demonizes guns"
According to state Rep. Mike Foote, HB 1043 is not even supposed to be a gun bill. The legislation is about clarifying criminal law, says the freshman lawmaker, who worked as a prosecutor in Boulder County before being elected to the statehouse in November.
But the bill has stoked the concerns of some gun rights supporters, who say it would essentially criminalize having a gun. And in a year where gun rights advocates are already bracing for what is expected to be the most signficant package of gun control bills in decades, any bill with the word “firearm” in it is getting lots of scrutiny.
The bill, which has a committee hearing on Tuesday, would alter current law to state that a firearm is a deadly weapon no matter how it is intended to be used. Foote, D-Lafayette, says the bill is necessary to counter a Colorado Supreme Court decision in 2012 in which a burglary conviction was overturned after prosecutors argued that a suspect caught carrying firearms had deadly weapons regardless of whether he intended to use them.
“What it (the decision) means,” Foote said, “is that when prosecutors are prosecuting someone for first-degree burglary, or sexual assault or aggravated robbery, and the person’s using a gun while they’re doing those acts, the person can argue, ‘Well, I didn’t really mean to use the gun as a deadly weapon.’
http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2013/01/23/bill-declaring-firearms-deadly-weapons-raises-ire-gun-rights-supporters/89096/
Fuckin gun nuts.
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is there anything liberals don't demonize? 
