Who Says You Have to See to Hunt?

People in Texas love themselves some guns, and the fine political folk down there want to remind y'all that all men have the right to bear arms. Not just those men who can see good.

Republican representative Edmund Kuempel is sponsoring a bill that would allow legally blind people to hunt. The gun would be equipped with a laser which would guide the visually impaired by telling them in which direction to aim. But wait, here's the weird part: according to abcnews.com, the law that Kuempel is fighting has nothing to do with the hunters being, you know, without the sense of sight. He's fighting the state law that prohibits the use of laser sights, spotlights and headlights when hunting because it could scare the animal, causing it to stand still, giving the guy -- with the gun -- a seemingly unfair advantage. As far as Texas seems concerned, a blind guy has every right to go hunting as long as there's no lights involved.

Now, I'm not from Texas, but from what I understand of people who hunt there, sense of sight doesn't seem to make much of a difference anyway (see: Cheney, Dick).

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