Barbara Norton craziness - new House bill on kids and Uzis

If you don't know who Barbara Norton is, you are missing out on a whole new level of nutty. She is a Democratic state legislator from Caddo Parish that has been in office since 2008. Well known in that part of the state for some odd statements and political positions, she once stated the US Constitution is racist:

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In May 2016, Norton acquired national attention when she announced her opposition to a bill which would require that the Declaration of Independence be taught in Louisiana public schools. She declared the Declaration "racist" because it did not apply to slaves. "For the Declaration of Independence, only Caucasians [were] free. And for you to bring a bill to request that our children will recite the Declaration, I think it's a little bit unfair."

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But her latest Bill is my favorite. Just introduced, I give you HB67:

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LA HB67 Creates the crime of unlawfully supplying a child with an Uzi submachine gun (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)

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R.S. 14:95.1.4 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 95.1.4. Unlawfully supplying a child with an Uzi submachine gun A. No person shall do any of the following: (1) Give, sell, donate, provide, lend, deliver, or otherwise transfer an Uzi submachine gun to any child who is twelve years of age or younger. (2) Temporarily transfer an Uzi submachine gun to any child who is twelve 12 years of age or younger for use in target shooting or on a firing or shooting range or for any other purpose.

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As background, one can assume this Bill is related to an August 2014 incident IN ARIZONA where a child was allowed to shoot an Uzi at a range and an instructor was accidentally shot. But how the hell does that result in her filing a Bill here and now? Is there an unknown Uzi epidemic happening in Shreveport? Bigger question, how do people like this get elected?