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Thanks for this blog post. I sometimes carry a gun for a living, and I hold a concealed carry permit in Iowa, and while I don't have perfect vision, I can see well enough to shoot, with or without my glasses.
Having said that, in my experience, self-defense shootings almost always occur when one is alone, during periods of limited visibility and at shockingly close ranges. In the most likely scenarios where a person with vision impairment would need to defend themselves, their so-called "impairment" would be irrelevant.
One of the gentlemen in the Des Moines Register article lives about five blocks from me. I do not have the least concern with him owning and/or having to use his firearm for self-defense. In fact, I think I should invite him to go shooting with me, now that I know he has a gun.
On Blindness and Guns in Iowa
I have received several emails about the recent decision in Iowa granting blind people the right to buy guns. Predictably my liberal friends don’t know what to make of this story though their instincts tell them that blind people and guns don’t go together. Comments on Facebook are either giggly...
Thank you for this blog. I love your contrarian and apparently brutally fair depiction of the 'Stans. I was introduced to Different Stans by a friend, who thought we might be fellow travellers or possibly might see eye to eye on a few things. I blog over on http://hotmilkforbreakfast.wordpress.com
In a story about my three years I spent living, studying and experiencing Afghanistan.
Drew
Different Stans
I wonder if we can really afford to go on looking at the region of Central Asia or Central Eurasia as just the five littoral Caspian states, or those post-Soviet states, plus Afghanistan and Turkey because of certain shared histories, but not put in Pakistan and India, i.e. "South and Central As...
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