Only in America

[Harleyman]

Says it all really

 

http://www.centralohio.com/usatoday/article/2780303

 

Blind allowed to carry guns!!!

 

The guardsmen at Buckinghma palace are apparently blind but allowed to carry assault weapons so what's the fuss about?

Two men almost burglarize the place :hihi:

 

Seems the coppers are pretty blind and stupid also. Didnt recognize Prince Andy in his own garden

 

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People should just get over the fact that Americans like to carry guns.

 

It doesn't affect you, it's not your country, nobody is imposing anything upon you by allowing people in America to bear arms.

 

That's right. You dont see us ex-pats on here starting rant threads about the injustice done to Sheffielders not being allowed to carry guns.

[JFKvsNixon]

Why would someone who is blind want to own a gun?

[Harleyman]

Why would someone who is blind want to own a gun?

 

Cos the blind use sounds as a substitute for eyes. Some olfd geezer alone in his house one night and an intruder enters. He calls out "whose there"? No answer so the old guy knowing exactly where he is pops him one.

 

Anyway from a legal standpoint you cannot deny a blind person a gun because that's discrimination against someone with a disability

[Zamo]

Cos the blind use sounds as a substitute for eyes. Some olfd geezer alone in his house one night and an intruder enters. He calls out "whose there"? No answer so the old guy knowing exactly where he is pops him one.

 

Anyway from a legal standpoint you cannot deny a blind person a gun because that's discrimination against someone with a disability

 

... and Walt, his deaf friend from next door, lies dead on the floor. He just didn't hear it coming.

[JFKvsNixon]

Cos the blind use sounds as a substitute for eyes. Some olfd geezer alone in his house one night and an intruder enters. He calls out "whose there"? No answer so the old guy knowing exactly where he is pops him one.

 

Anyway from a legal standpoint you cannot deny a blind person a gun because that's discrimination against someone with a disability

 

Of course you can deny a blind person a gun, just like blind people are denied the right to drive and take peoples appendixes out.

[Jace]

Americans Having guns is a good thing. It's called "Natural Selection".

 

and can only Benefit Humanity.

 

on a slight side note: Gun ownership was wide spread in the UK at one time, Politicians would tell Lies or Do U turns, and a member of the public would shoot them, Hence guns were outlawed.

[Harleyman]

Of course you can deny a blind person a gun, just like blind people are denied the right to drive and take peoples appendixes out.

 

Not the same thing. Public safety and job requirements differ from the right to bear arms under the second amendment. If the man has no criminal record on what grounds can you refuse?

He may keep that gun locked up and never use it. To assume that he might just shoot somebody by mistake is what it is..... unfair assumption just as assuming that a disabled person who drives a car is a menace to themself and other people

[JFKvsNixon]

Not the same thing. Public safety and job requirements differ from the right to bear arms under the second amendment. If the man has no criminal record on what grounds can you refuse?

 

As you mentioned it, public safety.

 

Being able to see what you are shooting at should be one of the key factors when you decide who should or shouldn't own a gun.

 

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He may keep that gun locked up and never use it. To assume that he might just shoot somebody by mistake is what it is..... unfair assumption just as assuming that a disabled person who drives a car is a menace to themself and other people

 

Would you allow a blind taxi driver to drive your wife?

[Harleyman]

As you mentioned it, public safety.

 

Being able to see what you are shooting at should be one of the key factors when you decide who should or shouldn't own a gun.

 

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Would you allow a blind taxi driver to drive your wife?

 

Nobody gets an eye check when they buy a gun. A buyer might be as myopic as hell behind those thick lense specs he wears and whose to say he cant fire his gun on a shooting range while not wearing his specs. Now if he were to shoot and injure or kill someone because of that then that's another issue between him personally and the law.

 

The issue here again is unfair assumptions without any legal grounds for assuming such and again I repeat that there's no grounds to believe beforehand that a blind person could shoot anybody by mistake.

 

Nobody stands trial for causing an accident if that accident hasn't happened yet do they? So why punish a person whose blind by the same token.

 

The blind taxi driver argument is obviously irrelevent since it's a 100 percent certaintly in that case without a doubt that an accident would happen.

 

Not the case with a blind person who wants to buy a gun. He's not going to use the gun as a means to earn a living

 

---------- Post added 09-09-2013 at 18:20 ----------

 

Americans Having guns is a good thing. It's called "Natural Selection".

 

and can only Benefit Humanity.

 

on a slight side note: Gun ownership was wide spread in the UK at one time, Politicians would tell Lies or Do U turns, and a member of the public would shoot them, Hence guns were outlawed.

 

There was always a fear that after the American and French revolutions that such a revolution could also happen in England despite the fact that in the highly ordered English society revolution was extremely unlikely to occur.

 

For that reason it was deemed undesirable for the public at large to be allowed firearms and instead firearms to be entrusted to royalty, the aristocracy, lords of the manor, country squires and the trusted servants of such gentry such as game keepers allowed shot guns.

 

In other words the privilege was confined to the ruling establishment which must have reassured them of enjoying a sound nights sleep

[alchemist]

 

Anyway from a legal standpoint you cannot deny a blind person a gun because that's discrimination against someone with a disability

 

So I assume in the US you have blind drivers?