Giuliani: Blind Should Be Able to Carry Guns
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FOX News
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Giuliani: Blind Should Be Able to Carry Guns
By Mosheh Oinounou
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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 Amendment," 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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304838,00.html
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