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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[divisadero.livejournal.com]

More accurate: "Texas, we look to you first for crazy laws"

I'm pretty sure that the copious numbers of hunting crazies here in AK would support this law. (In many if not most of the divorce cases I've seen, the most fought-over and valuable asset is the couple's gun collection.)

[kodi]

s/in texas/in texas or michigan or minnesota/

[anavolena.livejournal.com]

special gun laws so the legally blind can hunt? yes

money so the legally blind can differentiate between bills? no (http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/12/blind.money/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)

[matrushkaka.livejournal.com]

IHNJ, IJL using this userpic.

The scary part is

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

this isn't to give them guns, just to give them special sights. My BFFBB's father has hunted while legally blind most of his life here in NY. He can't drive a car, but he does the shooting for three: himself, his wife, and their completely blind friend.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Crimson Trace (http://www.crimsontrace.com) laser sights are very popular; the pair I bought had a little pamphlet extolling their virtues for, among others, "people with low vision."

I think this is complicated, and when you look hard enough at it, it begins to look like the entire gun control debate all over again. You can make the same arguments for and against a blind person owning and using guns that you can about a sighted person, or a deaf person.