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Just a reminder, the Democrats, who have largely exclusively pushed for gun laws, have given us the following mess:
Guns must cause ear damage -- devices which lower the sound to just below the threshold of causing ear damage are illegal.
Guns with barrels less than 16" must be designed in a way that they are extra hard to aim, making it a much higher risk that you will shoot someone accidentally... Only guns longer than 16" can be easy to aim.
Yet somehow people are baffled when I say the democrats have largely done more harm to the topic of gun control than good... every time they propose or pass a law it is complete nonsensical, largely because they dont even bother to under the very thing they want to legislate.
@Pat I actually want someone to do a comedy skit where a blind man tries to buy a gun.
I think unsighted people participate in the hobby, using targets that emit sounds.
@Pat That is a joke right?
@Pat I cant imagine that is a normal thing... like im glad he is having fun, so go for it... but there has got to be all of like 2 people who do that right?
I can imagine if someone loses their sight in an accident (like not wearing eye protection at the range), they would still want to continue doing the things they love.
This has come up a few times in movies (blind people firing guns). Like in a horror film with a vulnerable blind woman or man who is being stalked at home by some evil monster, and they have to to try to shoot at it based solely on the sound it's making.
@Pat Since I never lost my sight I obviously cant comment. I just cant imagine it feeling satisfying in anyway, I dunno. To me the fun of firing a gun is int he skill of being able to aim, its hard for me to see how that is enjoyable... but like i said if a blind person is having fun doing it they will have nothing but encouragement from me as long as they stay safe.
As you said, I think it is difficult for a sighted person to understand, but there is so much of the sport that involves the other senses -- the smell of the brass and the powder, the sound, obviously, the kick, and checking the target to see how well you did. A lot of times the target is too far away to tell how you did until you get close to it, and for an unsighted person that would be close enough to touch it.
So I think it could be a very similar experience for sighted and unsighted alike.
@Pat im sure, yea, hard to relate to
@Amikke
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an anti-gun promotional poster that says, "Who is faster than a speeding bullet? Nobody."; it shows a cartoon drawing of the end of gun barrel with an entire undetonated bottleneck cartridge flying out the end of the barrel
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I guess that silly poster is a metaphor for anti-gun folks -- every time they say something they provide more ammunition to their opponents. (full cartridge shooting out the end of the barrel)
@freemo