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Lawmaker aims to allow the blind to hunt
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.
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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.
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| King Luis |
| wow...i can see the next headline. "Man mistaken for a bear shot at home by blind man." |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
| Now how many of those people are blind b/c they accidently shot their eye out. |
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| Jayx1 |
Dumbest PC law ever!
I bet the same state is in the process of taking away rights from common everyday people like everywhere else!
What a strange world we live in today |
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| Abercrombie |
| Why don't we let them become destists too while we're at it... |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
Why don't we let them become destists too while we're at it... |
and give them drivers licence's too!! |
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| Platipus |
| so if they do kill someone, who gets sent to jail? the blind guy or the helper that said he could shoot? |
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| Time2Burn |
Blind or not blind I hope they shoot this moose. Maybe Dick Cheney is loosing his vision and needs to shoot more faces. |
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| King Luis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Platipus
so if they do kill someone, who gets sent to jail? the blind guy or the helper that said he could shoot? |
thats a good point. |
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| Jungle Fever |
| Only in Texas, where everything is bigger, even their brain damage. |
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| Abercrombie |
Dick Cheney in the news again?
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| 7-4-7 |
| that is amazing...i would love to watch that happen...sitting in a tank. |
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