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Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt
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."
It's not a Texas thing. It is legal for the blind to hunt in most (if not all) states. The only thing new is that Texas wants to let them be aided with lasers.
15 other states allow the blind to use lasers to help them hunt.
How is this an "Only in Texas" thing?
-- I'm old enough to have lived through six different meanings of the word "hacker."
You don't appear to understand that "blind" is frequently not absolute. Legally blind people can frequently still see, just not well. There is nothing intrinsically unsafe about legally blind people hunting, especially with a companion along to help with distances.
I suspect that you don't have much experience with firearms. While someone could, potentially, hit a target while blindfolded, it's much more difficult than it looks. Any theoretical totally blind person who manages to pass a marksmanship test is more a statistical anomaly than an example of "enough practice."
Oh, and in a more general response: Why does everyone have such a negative knee-jerk reaction toward hunting? I can understand the perceptions of TX, having lived there for a year, but hunting isn't limited to drunken, illiterate hillbillies.