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Question for US readers -is it true?

That in Iowa they have issued public carry gun permits to people who are legally blind?

Update:

1] They are banned from driving so if they cannot use one dangerous machine why allow another ?

2] A number of other States have eyesight restrictions on gun ownership, so it is a recognised problem

3] Guns do not protect; carrying a gun makes you 4 times more liely to be shot and killed than if you do not.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17922-carryi...

also - why does the gun control lobby block research into guns and crime?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929361.900...

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  • 8 years ago
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    1. Driving is not a right.

    2. Many states have restrictions that are unconstitutional. That is a recognized problem.

    3. Guns DO protect. Crimes are prevented everyday by guns, but they rarely keep statistics like those. The 4x number is propaganda.

    4. The "gun lobby" does not and can not "block research". That's another anti-gun lie. The CDC should study disease, not gun ownership. Guns are not health issues, illegal gun use is a crime and should be treated as such; the gun is not the problem, the misuse of one is.

    Many "legally blind" people can see well enough to be competently able to defend themselves. Why should they be denied their Constitutional rights? If they injure someone, there is civil recourse.

    A person who does tell the truth still has his 1st amendment rights; a renter still has his 4th amendment right against unwarranted search or someone else's house; a politician still has the right to lie......why the bigotry against a disabled person?

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    So I see arbiter, you don't believe that a blind person has a right to protect themselves, and you call us firearm owners bigoted? I suppose you are like those brain dead liberal idiots that think a woman should just roll over on their backs and let a rapist rape them if peeing their pant or throwing up doesn't stop the scumbag rapist. I can tell you this for sure any scumbag rapist that tries to rape my wife or one of my daughters are going to get shot multiple times before they get the job done, and the only one peeing their pants or throwing up will be the scumbag rapist.

  • 8 years ago

    I didn't know there was a law in Iowa which was against blind people carrying guns.. You might be confused.. it might be that its now legally mandatory for blind people to carry guns.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yea my neighbour has a chain gun and a guide dog freedom and liberty.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Yeah maybe. What?..don't blind people deserve the right to protect themselves too?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    And, they know how to use them, too. And, I am very willing to bet they don't miss what they are shooting at.

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