Note: This guy appears to have full use of his arms
In case you’re wondering how far the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution extends, we’ve got the answers. You may own firearms even if you can’t shoot them.
Crazy, right? Right! Now before all you wingnuts out there get all pissy and tell us that the Second Amendment guarantees any knucklehead the right to keep and bear arms, how about if you can’t use your arms?
A New Jersey judge says a quadriplegic blocked from buying a gun to go hunting has the right to bear arms even though he will have to use a wheelchair mount to use the firearm.
Really? Christ:
A judge ruled Tuesday that the 46-year-old is eligible for a firearms ID, which is required to buy a gun. The judge addressed the safety issues by requiring [petitioner James] Cap to have qualified people assist him with weapons.
Cap was an avid hunter as a teenager. He was paralyzed 30 years ago after breaking his neck in a high school football game. He plans to mount the gun on his wheelchair and operate it with a breathing tube.
We’re going to go out on a limb here and suggest there are some things quadriplegics just can’t do: dance; climb Mt. Everest; fire a weapon. Of course, someone may invent a dancing wheelchair or hire a sherpa who’ll carry you for the duration of your ascent or fit your firearm with a breathing tube that will, through science and magic, pull the trigger. But is that really the point?
i hope that guy doesn’t get the hiccups during a hunt
Actually, he’s in New Jersey, so let’s hope he does.
I see this gun-wheelchair thing being the start of some weird sci fi-inspired technological advance.
This is exactly the point. How about hitting a moving target? How about feeling the power of the gun. How about handling the recoil? How about hanging out with his friends and doing the same thing they’re doing instead of sitting around passively watching? Look, he’s not trying to be a cop or a soldier. He just wants to shoot his gun. Stop assuming people can’t do things or forming an opinion based on what YOU would do, and try seeing what they can do. But then bloggers need to have opinions and it’s always cooler to have a negative opinion than a positive one, isn’t it?
You got it!
Oh, BTW, to see quadriplegics dancing, go to http://www.axisdance.org/
Instead of hooking it up to his breathing, hook it up to his heart rate, with a belt feed magazine. The more excited he fires! If he gets super excited then it can trigger grenade launchers.
If he goes over 200bpm heartrate, then the chair spins in circles with multiple American flags and pinwheel fireworks, while it plays this:
Now THATS hunting!!