Jane Hudson with Disability Rights Iowa said keeping legally blind people from obtaining weapon permits would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
So they can get drivers licenses?
This is such a nonsense statement.
Yes people with disabilities need some protections under the law.
But you can not be an airline pilot. You can not be a street police officer. No one is going to hire you to take kids photo’s.
So if one of these people shoot an innocent bystander can they use the ADA as a defense?? Is common sense no longer allowed in America?
“So if one of these people shoot an innocent bystander can they use the ADA as a defense??”
They would have exactly the same defense as anyone else who shot an innocent bystander.
Everyone has to know their limitations.
For me, it all boils down to a test something like this.
Suppose you were in a restaurant and, heaven forbid, a madman came in and began shooting.
Would you hope that an armed citizen with good vision was in that restaurant? Certainly.
Would you hope that an armed citizen with poor vision was in that restaurant? Again, certainly.
Would you hope that an armed citizen with no vision was in that restaurant? Uh, probably not. Wouldn't be helpful. In fact, it would probably only make a very bad situation worse.
In fact, I cannot conceive of any situation were a totally blind person would be safe with a gun. So I would deny the permit, just as I would deny a permit to a person who is a known psychotic and hears voices.
No one here is a bigger 2nd Amendment supporter than me. But every amendment has its boundaries. The 1st Amendment gives me free speech. But I cannot scream at my neighbor's house at two in the morning.
Of course, the devil is in the details. Big Brother government could define "blind" to be anyone who wears glasses, and "psychotic" to be anyone who is a registered Republican.