Lawmaker aims to allow the blind to hunt
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.
Everybody who thinks this is a good idea, raise your hand. Ok, everybody who's NOT from Texas and thinks this is a good idea, raise your hand.
Thanks to the sister for sending me a snarky email about this and reminding me why I'll never live in Texas.
7 comments:
Well, if people with good eyes can hunt from a duck blind, then why can't the blind hunt since they don't need a blind...
Maybe Cheney just wants to make sure he can still hunt since he's obviously losing some sight as he "peppered" a fellow hunter he mistook as a quail
Aw y'know the state of Texas has a sense of humor.
They fund public education with taxes on strip clubs. ;) And they gave the country LBJ, GHWB, and GWB.
Btw, about your question about presidents that have been mentally ill, the only one I can think of is Abe Lincoln who is said to have suffered from depression based on today's dianosis, and his wife was confined for her problems I thought. Plus he was last year in a book to have been gay (don't know anymore about it than the newpaper articles I read).
Is a blind hunter sitting in a duck blind kind of ironic?
That's why our motto is "Don't mess with Texas. Even the blind are armed."
Cait, you really must tell us, what’s wrong with the politicians in Texas? I get that they’re all manly, he-man, men’s men, but really! Does anybody really want to hunting with a blind guy?
And forget hunting, how the heck are ya gonna get him out there? The last time I was there, the woods weren’t exactly user-friendly.
No sex toys allowed, but hunting licenses for the blinds. hehehe ;)
Blind people can't have sex toys? Well that's hardly fair. :>
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