By james art 
Indianapolis (wish) – a blind man in Indiana calls for laws of common sense after he was allowed to receive allowed to hide wearing.
Terry Sutherland, who is blind, says he has received his authorized carrying permit to try to conversations about reasonable weapons legislation. He used his white cane when he went to the City County building to get a fingerprint for the permit, and said he was talking to a few people who knew he was blind.
“It just went very smoothly and usually, and it seemed that no one thought anything about it. It was stunning. It shocked me more than I expected. I thought in the last second, someone would go, “Wait a little,” he said.
But it didn’t happen. Sutherland now says the fact that he has been able to obtain his hidden carrying permit is emphasizing a problem with Indiana’s weapons laws. Constitutional wearing allows anyone in the state for over 18 years to wear a pistol in a public place, hidden or not, without license.
Sutherland’s decision is something that some other states already do: people will have to pass a test of competence in a range of weapons before they are allowed to carry a gun in public.
“I think competence with a deadly weapon is the largest minimum we can do,” Sutherland said.
Guy Relford, a constitutional rights lawyer who focuses on the second amendment, challenged Sutherland’s idea.
“We are starting to put restrictions imposed by the government in constitutional law, I always think this is dangerous and inappropriate. This does not mean that people should not be trained, but society always functions better when people exercise personal responsibility and understand their own will, that they must be safe and responsible with this pistol, “Relford said.
Sutherland says it is not against the second amendment. Before losing his eyesight as a teenager, he learned how to safely use weapons with his family. He says he just wants laws of common sense that keep the public safe.
“If I can have a gun, why can’t I have a driver’s license? What is the worst that can happen? I could kill someone, ”Sutherland said.
Sutherland says he has sent letters to the legislators to see if they will talk about changes to the legislation, but he has not heard back.
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