Let blind people go hunting?

[Valkysas]

Oh ****.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas lawmaker is aiming to allow the blind to hunt. Texas State Representative Edmund Kuempel has introduced a measure that would allow blind people to hunt any game that sighted people can currently pursue.
He hopes it will be passed after the legislature reconvenes in January though he does not expect it to come into affect until 2008.
"This opens up the fun of hunting to additional people, and I think that's great," Kuempel told Reuters.
The bill may find little resistance in Texas, where politicians of all stripes endorse hunting, which is wildly popular in the state

Under the bill, blind hunters would be required to have a sighted hunter with them and would be allowed to use laser sights and other devices that are currently not allowed.
"A blind person can shoot a rifle by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top," said Terry Erwin, the Austin-based Hunter Education Coordinator with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
"This allows their companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and help them sight it, but the blind person can pull the trigger," he told Reuters.

[Drazus]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

This is probably the worst idea since arming teachers. There's already enough accidents when hunting.

[Valkysas]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

arming teachers?

[Drazus]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

Yes. Someone thought it'd be a good idea to give teachers weapons to defend themselves in cases like Columbine.

[Valkysas]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

Oh man, if teachers were allowed to carry weapons I would have been shot so many times in middle school.

[irate giraffe]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

I think it's a good idea. Everyone should be armed. Second amendment and all...

[Drazus]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

We're also allowed to smoke, yet in certain areas it's banned.

Schools are like bars. Guns are banned.

[irate giraffe]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

I'm against public schools as well. Why should I pay for other's kids to be educated?

& don't even get me starting on all the anti-smoking litigation going through.

[Valkysas]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

I'm highly allergic to smoke, and just one good breath of it is enough to knock me out (or cause coughing fits and near-complete closure of my windpipe) instantly. So I'm completely for any anti-smoking laws.

I'm against public schools as well. Why should I pay for other's kids to be educated?

because other people paid for you to go to school, and some day these other people's kids will be the ones making your laws and taking care of you?

[Gustaff 13]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

I never liked that Dr. Stupid...

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

because other people paid for you to go to school, and some day these other people's kids will be the ones making your laws and taking care of you?

It's true. This one guy who graduated with me in '01, he's currently mayor in the next town. I assume anyway, unless his dad is also named Josh. I think I mentioned that, actually, but a search didn't show up for it, so I probably did somewhere else.

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

If I were a legislator, the only people I would allow to go hunting without the aid of their vision are Batman and Samurai Jack.

[gray]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

when i saw this on the news, i thought perhaps the blind people had echo location or some such, but then quickly realized that it would be overloaded by the sound of the bullet firing, and they would therefore never be able to find what they shot.




so i'm against it.

[Chad]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

I'm against public schools as well.

You're against public schooling all together?!

[jvrlopez]

Re: Let blind people go hunting?

He wants everyone to be a home schooled loner.