it could only happen in texas

[rone]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A Texas lawmaker wants to give more hunters a chance to shoot live animals -- even if those hunters can't see very well.

A bill has been filed for the 2007 legislative session that would permit legally blind hunters to use laser sights, or lighted pointing instruments.

Because nothin' says lovin' like legally blind people with guns.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Fine, i'm going to spell it out for you. I'm not saying that blind people shouldn't own guns; rather, i'm finding it difficult to believe that people whose vision is so bad that they're legally considered blind would actually want to go out in the wilderness with a gun and shoot animals. When normally sighted people already have plenty of hunting accidents, letting the legally blind hunt with firearms seems like a very bad idea. This isn't about gun rights; this is about common sense. You think that people who are legally blind are well acquainted with their limitations; i think that there are way too many people who are unaware of their limitations to make your assumption.

Now, in your condescending diatribe, you start off by talking about a legally blind person shooting a homebreaker. What the fuck does that have to do with hunting? Nothing. Zero. It's a red fucking herring. Then you descend into giving a patronizing example of complete polar opposites about gun ownership positions; there's nothing in my post about gun ownership. The "cute deaf girl" example and the contact lenses guy stories are marvelous hypothetical situations that you use to build up a strawman that's supposed to represent my position. You don't even know whether i'm pro-gun control; you just assumed that, probably because i'm a liberal. "First they came for the eyeglasses-wearers..." Please. Equal rights for the disabled... what a joke. That's all you; that's what you tried to turn this into. Don't blame me.

You can comment all you want here; i will call bullshit on anyone who comments here with bullshit.