the blind and the right to arms
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has expressed concerns about changes to the concealed-carry law that prevents the state from denying gun permits to the blind and other people with serious physical disabilities.
The exercise of rights only limited to the those without serious disabilities? The slope is slippery, there.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:38 am
I smell smoke coming from a certain Librarian in my neck of the woods.
June 13th, 2011 at 11:03 am
My father-in-law kept a loaded .357 Magnum in his nightstand, even during the period of time when he was legally blind.
Maybe he wouldn’t be able to win an E-postal match, but I imagine even when his vision was at its worst he could make minuet of bad-guy.
Thankfully his vision recovered.
June 13th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Remember, it’s not discrimination when they do it.
June 13th, 2011 at 11:29 am
So far as I know, Knoxville’s blind CCW permit holder has yet to shoot anything or anyone that didn’t need shooting.
June 13th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Why shouldn’t a blind person own a pocket pistol or derringer?
“Jack Ruby” your assailant. Use it at contact distance and rule 4 is preserved.
June 13th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Must a woman be able to see him to shoot a rapist off of her? Even at night, in total darkness?
June 13th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Hold off on getting that official Asperger’s dx, boys and girls.
June 13th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
EXCUUUUUSE me!?! (I’m sorry, I think my head just exploded.)
June 13th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
And further: Anybody else remember that scene in “The Blues Brothers” with Ray Charles and the revolver?
June 13th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
It’s important to remember that, as far as I understand it, one can be legally “blind”, without being completely unable to see.
(In some contexts in some areas, my impressions is that one can be “blind” for some legal purposes and yet still see perfectly well enough using corrective lenses; bad enough eyesight can be correctible, but meet the criteria for “blindness” without correction.)
June 13th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
HEH
Why do you need a magazine that can hold more than ten rounds?
June 14th, 2011 at 2:41 am
“So far as I know, Knoxville’s blind CCW permit holder has yet to shoot anything or anyone that didn’t need shooting.”
Puts him way ahead of the cops 😀