The blind to be allowed gun permits?

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Jackie22 said:
I want to apologise for any ill feelings that I may have caused, it was never my intention to enforce my will or my thoughts on anyone. I am a staunch Democrat, a political junkie, have always tried to keep up with whats going on in Washington as well as locally and have always tried to defend my views as I see it...just trying to show another opinion when needed...in the future I will try to be 'less staunch'... lol...and more respectful of others' views

Also would like to say that I really appreciate the ability of some on this forum to be fair, peacemakers and open to all views, you set an example that I will try harder to follow.
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You a Democrat???? Whoda ever thought that.
 

Well I'll just go ahead and make it 200 replies.
I must say it has been good to read so many differing replies and I don't think anybody lost it.
 
Jumpin In!!!! When this tread first started, I thought how crazy that it was even being considered that a blind man could own a gun. Having followed up every day to see what you smart people had to say, I realized just how little I know about the mindset of feeling like you have to protect yourself. Honestly, that is something that never crosses my mind. I'm your typical "non violent", "make love not war" individual and am happy to stay that way. After reading the tread though, I can see all sides of the debate and my conclusion is that it depends on where you live and the culture around you as well as your experiences that molds our perceptions of guns and/or gun control.

Everyone has a valid point for their own circumstance and it has been an interesting debate. Just because we don't agree, doesn't mean there isn't respect, so I appreciate this thread.
 
Can't really blame him, can you?

I took it as a serious thread. Not that I'm completely naive; it's just that this kind of thing doesn't surprise me anymore.

I've never lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public. :p
 
I never wanted to argue the pro's & cons of Americas Laws on the General public owning guns.
What I was amazed at was the the fact( which I thought at first was a HOAX) the gun Licences
were going to be issued to the BLIND!....Still find it a bit wierd!
 
GDAD said:
I never wanted to argue the pro's & cons of Americas Laws on the General public owning guns.
What I was amazed at was the the fact( which I thought at first was a HOAX) the gun Licences
were going to be issued to the BLIND!....Still find it a bit wierd!
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GDAD, this is another one of those silly(to you that don't live here) things about we Americans . It is the product of the way our government does things, and our conditioning.
We have learned that when we don't stand up for the rights of someone else, our turn is generally not far behind. Like that old story of the guy not caring when the bad guys came and took someone else, and eventually, the rest were gone, and the bad guys came for him.

The government will pick an issue like this, where most people will agree, and then blind people will not be allowed to own guns. Then they will use the example of some wacko that shoots up someplace like was just all over the news, and say that people with mental problems shouldn't have guns. Again, most people agree.
Then , some vietnam vet loses it, and shoots people, so now, they can't have guns either. You get the idea...

Bite by bite, they keep eating away at the elephant, until none of us are left with the right to own a gun, or at best ,there are only a few of us left to protect this country should we be attacked.
Right now, just the hunters here in America are a formidable force to make any country think twice before attacking. Once our weapons are gone, and our military is scattered around the globe, America is vulnerable.

We have been down that road before with things we used to love and take for granted, like prayer in school, and "in God we trust" being part of our money, and our government.
Parents used to be able to discipline their children here, and they grew up to be responsible adults.

Pretty much all of that was slowly eroded away by government making more laws a little at a time, until now we hold onto what we have left with both hands.
 
Note the Boston Marathon disaster - 2 guys on the ground.

Note 9/11 - 4 commercial airplanes.

I don't think we have to worry so much about nukes - that's a remnant of the Cold War years. What we DO have to worry about are small groups of terrorists bringing the war here, and small groups of terrorists CAN be stopped with firearms wielded by private citizens.

Besides - one of the supposed functions of our government is to protect us from "outside" threats. :rolleyes: But as I've said, the threats no longer appear on our coastlines, way up in the air, waving big signs that say "WE'RE ATTACKING YOU!"

Now it's the guy next door that everyone says is "a quiet, well-mannered kinda' guy".

Attacking the enemy from within their own camp - a tactic in vogue since the days of cavemen.
 
"So who's gonna invade? Canada or Mexico?"

Diwundrin, have you read any of the news reports, about what goes on along our border with Mexico?

I think the question to be settled is the right. Does it exist or not? Unfortunately The "gun side" seems to have become distracted from the real issue and some dumb things are said that does not help the cause at all. On both sides of the issue.
"DISCLAIMER: This statement is not directed to any statement made during the discussion on this thread but the overall picture in general. (Does that make sense?)
 
Back in the mid-90s, I lived in western Washington, and rode my horse out near Mt. St. Helens.
One day, Robin (who was home on leave) and I were riding along the trail, when a soldier appeared out of the woods. He was in there for survival training, and when he found out that Robin was in the military, he opened up and told us what he knew about the other military training that was happening in the area, and there were several training areas , some of them for UN, and Russian and Hungarian troops, hidden away up there in the mountains.
Several of the neighbors reported chickens missing from the coops overnight, and I found where soldiers had made a camp bed in the horse hay in our barn, so most of the residents knew about the soldiers training out in the woods.
Friends who went out camping with their Jeeps also came across foreign speaking soldiers training with fwd ORVs called
Rodan, when they were up on the mountain.
So, not even counting the terrorist sleepers we have here, there are also military soldiers training in outlying areas.

I have posted one short clip, but there are all kinds of articles and videos about the Chinese and Russian infiltration that is happening under the very nose of the sleeping American people, who are mostly waiting for zombies to come to life and attack us.
http://youtu.be/vtAAUegOz28
 
Of course it is utterly ridiculous to give a permit to own and/or carry a gun to a person blind or legally blind. Just as ridiculous as it would be to give them a license to drive a car. Oh wait a minute, they wouldn't be able to pass the test required by law to drive the car. Hum??
 
Davey Jones said:
I remember my Father always telling me when I drove him nuts:) to "go out on the street and play"
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We actually DID play on the street - touch football, stickball, tag, bike riding, roller skating - so I never understood the evil of the phrase "go out and play in traffic".

For us it was a simple "OK". :rolleyes:

Judi D. said:
Of course it is utterly ridiculous to give a permit to own and/or carry a gun to a person blind or legally blind. Just as ridiculous as it would be to give them a license to drive a car. Oh wait a minute, they wouldn't be able to pass the test required by law to drive the car. Hum??
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Ah, but the fly in the ointment there is that there ARE several states that issue driver's licenses to legally blind citizens. The test they take is modified to allow for their handicap.
 
What is it about the Americans and guns? There seems to be a terrible shooting tragedy in the US quite frequently yet they still love their firearms!:confused:
 
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