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Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-shoot dept.

IHC Navistar writes with a story from Reuters Oddly Enough. A Texas lawmaker has introduced a measure that would allow blind people to hunt any game that sighted people can currently pursue. The article notes that the bill may have clear sailing in the hunting-besotted state of Texas. An education outreach person from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department explained it this way: "A blind person can shoot a rifle by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and help them sight it, but the blind person can pull the trigger."

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  1. Chuck Norris by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny
    Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt

    It's not that big of a surprise. With Chuck Norris prowling the area, they figure that everyone has a right to take their chances.

    Look on the bright side. They'll never see it coming! (The roundhouse kick to the face, that is...) :P
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    1. Re:Chuck Norris by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

      Looks to me lik esomebody wants to "tip the scales" on the Darwin Award nomination committee, this year.

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    2. Re:Chuck Norris by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 4, Funny

      Texan lawmakers are encouraging blind people to hunt, and Americans are afraid of foreigners?

      Give em all rocket launchers and let God sort em out...

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    3. Re:Chuck Norris by EvanED · · Score: 2, Funny

      But it's not Darwin unless you kill yourself...

      BTW, your sig is unusually fitting for this story. ;-)

    4. Re:Chuck Norris by Clockwork+Apple · · Score: 2, Funny

      Can you imagine how much louder than "safty orange" a color is going to have to be so that a BLIND hunter can tell you from a deer?

      C.

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  2. i can imagine... by hamburger+lady · · Score: 4, Funny

    the number of incidents of people getting 'peppered' around the face will totally increase.

    bravo, guys.

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    1. Re:i can imagine... by MindKata · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Texas wants to let them be aided with lasers"

      Why?, is it so they can blind the sighted hunters as well?!?

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    2. Re:i can imagine... by geobeck · · Score: 5, Funny

      They arent allowed to drive for the same reason.

      Shh! Not so loud! Some Texas lawyer might get another bright idea.

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    3. Re:i can imagine... by green1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      of course I'm still trying to figure out the braille on the machine inside the bank near my house that's behind a sheet of plexiglass...you can see it fine, but you'd never be able to feel it...

  3. Nothing for you to see here.., by Cyberax · · Score: 4, Funny

    How fitting.

  4. (insert Cheney joke here) by facelessnumber · · Score: 3, Funny

    See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor.

    Dear on-duy editor:

    Um, yes?

  5. Fun with Dick by Scaba · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shit. I can't think of any funny Dick Cheney jokes.

  6. How many... by mandelbr0t · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...blind Texans does it take to shoot out a light bulb?

    (sorry, it's the best joke I could think of)

    mandelbr0t

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    1. Re:How many... by ExploHD · · Score: 2, Funny

      Three; one blind man, one to set up the sight, and one to yell "It's coming straight for us!"

  7. Next step by Jon+Luckey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does the law contain a "You killed it, you clean it!" provision?

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    1. Re:Next step by hb253 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I have no problem if the hunted animals are actually used for food and what not. However, I can't help but cringe and chuckle when I'm flipping channels and stop on the hunting channel.

      The scene: Two guys in full camouflage, face paint, big big rifles with big big scopes and laser thingies attached, binoculars, two way radios, etc etc.

      Hunter1: "Look at that, what a beautiful animal."

      Hunter2: "Such a noble creature, look at the antlers, a true work of art"

      Hunter1: "I feel one with nature"

      BANG

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  8. Great idea by sentientbeing · · Score: 5, Funny

    What could possibly go wrong?

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    1. Re:Great idea by AhtirTano · · Score: 4, Funny

      If Texans want to take themselves out of the gene pool, who are we to stop them?

  9. Trickery by MrSquishy · · Score: 5, Funny
    A blind person can shoot a rifle by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and help them sight it, but the blind person can pull the trigger.
    A less dangerous version could be:
    A blind person can "shoot" a rifle-shaped block of wood by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their liar companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and tell them "Oh yeah, you totally got that one."
    1. Re:Trickery by HTTP+Error+403+403.9 · · Score: 5, Funny
      A less dangerous version could be:

      A blind person can "shoot" a rifle-shaped block of wood by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their liar companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and tell them "Oh yeah, you totally got that one."

      Then you can stick the blind person's hand in spaghetti and peeled grapes and say it's the deer's intestines and eyeballs.
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    2. Re:Trickery by sessamoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      A less dangerous version could be:
      A blind person can "shoot" a rifle-shaped block of wood by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their liar companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and tell them "Oh yeah, you totally got that one."
      You left out the part where the "companion" loads the gun with nothing. Then when the blind hunter, prompted by his companion, pulls the trigger, the companion yells "Bang!" really loudly.
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    3. Re:Trickery by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      Blind person: "Why does this dear have 3 eyeballs?"

      Sighted person thinking fast: "They all do, didn't anyone tell you?"

      Sounds like a penny arcade cominc.

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  10. First question after the shot? by chris_mahan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did I hit anything?

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    1. Re:First question after the shot? by eck011219 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or more to the point ...

      "Bob, did I hit anything? Bob? Bob?"

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  11. Objection, your honor! by The_Wilschon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am a Texan, and I seriously do object to the characterization of my state as "hunting-besotted". Note: this post is not intended to be humorous. I am aware that most (at least I hope) people will recognize this characterization as hyperbole, but from many other things that I have read and heard, there remain a significant number of people who will not. Therefore, while I am certainly not demanding that nobody ever say this about Texas, I do wish to speak up and be heard when I assert that this is, in fact, hyperbole. Hyperbole has its place in satire and parody (and other forms of mockery), but it should be countered (as opposed to censored or removed) unless it is known that everyone recognizes it as satire and parody. Texas is not "hunting-besotted".

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    1. Re:Objection, your honor! by The_Wilschon · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm so glad that you can completely dismiss anyone who doesn't agree with you (apparently "conservative Republicans") as assholes. That definitely shows real wisdom and not a bit of prejudice. Isn't it nice when the world is so cleanly divided by a bright line into the good guys and the bad guys? It's almost like a comic book! Oh, and one anecdote. Gosh, that just floored me. I don't even know how to begin to respond to that.

      Perhaps since you live in such an "island", you simply haven't gotten out much, and therefore haven't realized that most of the state is not in fact like that. However, I know people from all over the state, and very few of them are "enamored of hunting, guns, pick-up trucks, country music, Republicans, etc." Many of them are Republican (as if that is some sort of deadly insult); most of them drive small economy cars (gas is expensive, and trucks use a lot of gas); most of them don't own a gun, have never owned a gun, and are not planning on purchasing a gun; a significant number of them (although less than half I would estimate) do prefer country music (is that so bad either?); most of them have never been hunting in their life, and wouldn't want to go even if someone invited them. So yes, many of them do fit one or maybe two aspects of your misguided stereotype, but nearly noone fits the entire profile. Perhaps it's time you got off your "Keep Austin weird, and to hell with everyone else" high horse. I always thought that the Democratic party was supposed to be populist, all for the common man, etc. Unless I'm completely wrong about that, maybe you'd better check your political stance and make sure you aren't rooting for the wrong team.

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  12. Re:Lots of FUD here by microbee · · Score: 1, Funny
    but those of us in hunting states (WI here) know that hunting is more about family and friends than just shooting an animal

    I read it as "(hunting is) more about shooting family and friends than just animal".

    No wonder.

  13. In Soviet Texas by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hunters blind you!

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  14. Re:It's Funny - Laugh by solevita · · Score: 2, Funny

    How does the blind skydiver know when it's time to open his parachute?


    The dog's lead goes slack.

    On a serious note, I agree; this shouldn't be an object of mockery. Even if I can't understand the appeal of blind shooting.

  15. oh great... by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    blind people. with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

  16. Re:Imagination by camperdave · · Score: 3, Funny

    but hunting isn't limited to drunken, illiterate hillbillies.

    Yeah! But did you ever notice that they never tell us when open season on Lawyers and Politicians starts?

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