This is, I believe, legal in Texas. Or they were considering such a law in the LSS. Moreover, a Very Liberal but very Texican former law prof of mine, a tiny woman 98 pounds soaking wet, says she carries a gun (I can imagine it would knock her over) and thinks it's a good idea for the blind to be able to. Disability activists have said the same things to me.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [sorry forgot to include the news article]
>
> FOX NEWS/ Oct. 24, 2007
>
> Giuliani: Blind Should Be Able to Carry Guns
>
> LEBANON, N.H. — Republican presidential front-runner
> Rudy Giuliani is
> leaving the door open to allowing the blind and
> physically disabled
> to carry guns.
>
> During a town hall meeting in northwestern New
> Hampshire Tuesday
> night, Giuliani told a former police officer blinded
> in the line of
> duty and concerned about the former New York City
> mayor's stance on
> guns, "You don't have to worry."
>
> "You have a constitutional right that is protected,
> to bear and carry
> arms. It is the Second Ame ndment," Giuliani told
> about 200 attendees
> in a high school gymnasium in Lebanon. "If someone
> disagrees with
> that, you have to get the Constitution changed."
>
> He added that he believes in only three restrictions
> for those
> wishing to exercise their Second Amendment right — a
> previous
> criminal record, a history of mental instability and
> an age requirement.
>
> Kenyon Tuthill, 61, who served as a Suffolk County,
> N.H., police
> officer until his injury, told FOX News that he was
> satisfied with
> Giuliani's answer.
>
> During his two terms as mayor, Giuliani supported
> strict gun laws at
> both the local and national level and advocated the
> federal assault
> weapons ban that expired in 2004. But as a
> presidential candidate, he
> vows to protect Second Amendment rights at the
> federal level allowing
> state and local authorities to determine their own
> "reasonable"
> restrictions.
>
> New Hampshire, the Live Free Or Die State, is known
> for its limited
> gun-control laws, including no waiting period for
> purchases, no
> background checks for buyers of rifles and shotguns
> and no
> restrictions on children under 18 possessing
> firearms, according to
> the Brady Campaign, a gun-control advocacy group.
>
> But the rural state with lots of sportsmen and a
> high rate of gun
> ownership annually has fewer than 100 total murders,
> including non-
> gun crimes, and Second Amendment rights are hugely
> important to
> constituents of both parties.
>
> New Hampshire allows the blind to possess firearms,
> Tuthill said.
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