Fun With Guns: Great Ideas Edition
Iowa has a whole mess of empty land. That is a good thing because —-
Iowa is granting permits to acquire or carry guns in public to people who are legally or completely blind.
No one questions the legality of the permits. State law does not allow sheriffs to deny an Iowan the right to carry a weapon based on physical ability.
What could possibly go wrong?
Jane Hudson, executive director of Disability Rights Iowa, says that denying blind people their Second Amendment rights violates the Americans With Disability Act. My research, although limited, has not shown if Jane has volunteered to help with target practice for a blind person. I dunno. Maybe we should start out slowly, like a bow and arrow shooting an apple off Jane’s head.
Thanks to Chloe and Alan for the heads up.
I’m sure they’re not the only state that lets blind people carry, or at least get hunting licenses.
Now that we can take guns into national parks, a little girl shot herself to death in Yellowstone because some jackwagon just HAD to have a loaded gun.
For those who need a clue: few people are accidentally killed by guns when the ammo is stored safely, as it’s supposed to be.
1Blind people are required to take drivers education in our school district. That is another brilliant idea.
2Good grief. Are blind people allowed to drive? If not, why should blind people be allowed to shoot? Let ’em stick to playing the piano or being swimming champions or something.
3I guess its true that common sense is not so common.
4Let’s remember that the gun industry would sell to a coma patient if given the chance. Keep the $$$$ coming in, don’t ask questions and above all scream about your 2nd amendment right to put yourself and everybody else at risk.
5I am reminded of the scene in Blues Brothers when Ray Charles shoots a rifle and just misses the kid who is trying to rip him off.
Only in the movies!
Ugh! Remind me not to go to Iowa until the blind have killed a few people and they (hopefully) stop that insanity.
On second thought, there are some people I wouldn’t mind placing in front of the blind with guns.
Is this going to be like braille reading where they have to feel the person before they shoot him?
Who could make the first comedy movies on the topic?
6It’s lucky for Frankenstein’s Monster that the blind monk in Young Frankenstein didn’t have a firearm… he did enough damage with the soup, the wine, and the cigars.
7RepubAnon@7 – you funny!
8Hi,I’m mike from canada. I’ve never been to iowa and have never lived on ewess hiway 59. Iowa sure is filled with dumb flickers,ain’t it. Bet the guv and house of rethuglicans are rethuglicans. I’ll allow that’s all I has to say about anything.
9I once banked in Houston where the drive up banking slots had braille instructions. On the driver’s side.
10Go figure.
Wisconsin beat Iowa to the blind hunter permit a long, long time ago. (You still don’t need a special permit to hunt drunk):
11http://dnr.wi.gov/files/pdf/pubs/wm/WM0352.pdf
@ June Bug: It’s cheaper for the the companies to make one model of the hardware instead of braille and non-braille models. But it does bring up some interesting.
I assume Iowa will now legalize infant-size weapons, with tiny triggers designed for those wee fingers. Imagine an army of Terrible Twos…
12June Bug, all ATMs are supposed to have Braille instructions. It’s not economical to remove them from the drive-in versions.
13Does the Americans With Disability Act require states to give driver’s licenses to the blind? That would seem to be equally “discriminatory.”
14True story. An Iowa reporter friend of mine tells of his editor, who owned a small country paper with a blind photographer. Point… and shoot!
15As a former farmer,I used to have to get re-certified every three years to buy and use restricted herbicides,pesticides,etc. The regulations told us to tape some quarters inside our first aid kits to use at the nearest pay telephone out in the back forty. Would make more sense to use the quarters to cover some stiff’s eyes,but then the rules are made by people in suits,far away from whereever the hell the rules are implemented,no pun intended. Rules,like farm equipment,are engineered by people who never use them because if they ever HAD to use them,they would design them a lot differently!
16I would be T-totally freaked about this development and the basis for it, but Stevie Wonder once actually drove a car.
The auto industry is coming out with robo-cars. Input the directions and off you go! This means that all those people who physically and/or mentally shouldn’t be behind the wheel are going to be out there with the rest of us to an even greater degree. I wonder if robo-cars will actually obey the law any better than humans? Would this spell the end of road rage?
17As if we don’t have enough tragedy inflicted by gun-wielding lunatics with unhindered vision. Next time you encounter a Gun Nut denying the accusation that he and his pals want everybody armed, bring up this story.
18A friend of mine used to drive a blind friend to the store once a week. For jollies, they would both wear dark glasses and poke canes out both sides of the car and tap their way slowly thru the parking lot.
19My daughter in law, who cannot recognize my son from 7 feet, legally carries in Minn. 40 cal Glock
20Actually,iowa has very little unfarmed,m-t land. 133 acres of farmground right on the SW edge of Sutherland,iowa sold for 13thousand -seven hundred bucks per acre to a speculator in Florida last week. Last year about thirty miles NW of me a gentleman paid over twenty thousand an acre for farmground. Too valuable to loie fallow.
21You guys are making a lot of assumptions about people with visual impairments. They are just as likely as anyone else to enjoy hunting and gun ownership. Whether or not they are capable of being responsible gun owners is their decision and should not be decided by the State.
In 2010, Missouri State officials took a baby from a blind couple because they didn’t think they were capable of taking care of their newborn. This type of discrimination cannot be tolerated.
And to clarify, the Braille on a drive up ATM is mandatory. It is not there for the driver, but for the passenger in the backseat of who might not want to share his PIN with the Taxi driver.
22Maggie, I saw a great 60 Minutes interview with Ray Charles some years ago. He related that he’d learned to fly a plane. “I might lose a wing but I could set it down if I had to. I’m on planes alot and I figure everyone should know a little something about anything that can kill them.” LOL
Jeromy, I can’t speak to the Missouri case you mentioned but the simple fact is that someone who is severely visually impaired is unlikely to mistakenly kill someone with a baby.
23I understand that States cannot limit constitutional rights but concealed carry for the blind does sound like a public a safety issue. It has been determined that the first amendment doesn’t give someone the right yell “fire!” in a movie theater- maybe the second amendment doesn’t necessarily entitle a blind person to carry a gun in public.
24It’s things like this that remind me my home in Iowa City is way too close to Missouri and way too close to Steve King’s congressional district in Western Iowa.
A blind person might have better aim than Dick Cheney, but then again…..
25I’m no genius, but I think letting the blind have guns is one sandwich short of a picnic.
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