"Gun rights" advocates pay signature gatherers to lie.

[Robb]

Oh, man.

Several El Paso County residents say those trying to recall Democratic Senate President John Morse are spreading lies in order to gather enough petition signatures to force a recall election, even going as far as saying Morse is trying to invalidate Colorado’s Make My Day law.

Among those who contacted the Denver Post, Carol Hoffman, who lives in Morse’s Senate district and is a Morse supporter. Hoffman said the false information is designed to “incite gun owners,” who have been up in arms since the Democratic-controlled legislation passed new gun laws, leading to recall efforts against four lawmakers...

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Hoffman said a paid circulator came to her home.

“I asked why they were recalling Sen. Morse and he told me that there is currently a law being considered that would make the ‘Make My Day’ law in Colorado invalid. He said that this current bill will hold gun owners responsible if they use a gun against an intruder in their home,” she said. “I told him that the bill he was talking about (The Assault Weapons Responsibility Act) did not do this, and it had been withdrawn anyway. He claimed there was ‘another bill’ still in play that did do this, although he couldn’t name it.”

She said a man at Penrose library with a “volunteer circulator” badge made the same false claim and when she told him the Assault Weapons Responsibility Act included exceptions, including for Make My Day, but he would “not back down.

“He simply denied the facts to the very end,” Hoffman said.

Read More: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2013/06/02/signatures-to-recall-colorado-senate-president-john-morse-are-due-monday/96897/

Don't miss the paid signature gatherer on video:

[The Magistrate]

1. Again, Sir: Scratch A Gun Fetishist, Find A Liar And A Criminal

The whole 'law-abiding gun owner' line is in the same class as 'jumbo shrimp': the demands of their fantasy lives as heroic slayers of 'thugs' and resistors to 'tyranny' require them to adopt an attitude of 'bending the rules' and 'defying authorities' in the pinch when the gun is in hand. So their actual attitude to the law is not 'I will obey the law' but rather 'I will decide which laws I will obey', and yet still their own conviction they are righteous and law-abiding people allows them to feel they are not criminally inclined when they harbor the intent to break laws at will, and even to believe that they are not criminals when they actually break laws.

[SunSeeker]

3. Wish I could k & r a reply!

I guess this will do...

[Robb]

4. It is an interesting thing about criminals.

Only roughly half of them think they're doing anything wrong.

[The Magistrate]

5. That Rings True, Sir

[patrice]

2. Bald-faced PRIVILEGE to lie, enforced by, at minimum, implied THREAT, iow, ROYALTY.

[frylock]

6. it's what they do. lie and spread disinformation.