德州将可能允许盲人持枪打猎

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　　AUSTIN, Texas - A Texas lawmaker is aiming to allow the blind to hunt. Texas State Representative（代表）Edmund Kuempel has introduced a measure that would allow blind people to hunt any game that sighted people can currently pursue.
        　　
        　　据路透社报道，得克萨斯一位立法者近日在制定一项允许盲人打猎的议案。得克萨斯州代表埃德蒙德·库佩尔指出完全可以让盲人在正常人的陪同下体会到打猎的快乐。
        　　
        　　He hopes it will be passed after the legislature reconvenes（重新立法）in January though he does not expect it to come into affect until 2008.
        　　
        　　尽管不指望这项议案在2008年前就生效，他希望在一月的重新立法中该项提议能通过。
        　　
        　　"This opens up the fun of hunting to additional people, and I think that's great," Kuempel told Reuters.
        　　
        　　库佩尔对路透的记者说“这能让更多的人（盲人）也参与体会到打猎的快乐，这将是了不起的。”
        　　
        　　The bill may find little resistance in Texas, where politicians of all stripes endorse（认可）hunting, which is wildly popular in the state.
        　　
        　　预计这项提案不会在德州遭到反对。打猎这项运动在德州颇受欢迎，德州上下的官员们都认可。
        　　
        　　Under the bill, blind hunters would be required to have a sighted hunter with them and would be allowed to use laser sights and other devices that are currently not allowed.
        　　
        　　提案中说，盲人猎手可以在一个正常人的引导下打猎，他们到时候可以使用目前被禁用的镭射瞄准装备。
        　　
        　　"A blind person can shoot a rifle by mounting（装备）an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top," said Terry Erwin, the Austin-based Hunter Education Coordinator with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. "This allows their companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and help them sight it, but the blind person can pull the trigger," he told Reuters.
        　　
        　　得州公园和野生动物部的猎手培训协调员泰里·艾温对此解释到" 盲人可以使用来福枪，把手枪瞄准镜放到来福枪一侧，这样可以让他们身后的同伴凝视着肩膀，帮助他们观察。当然盲人最后扳动扳机。"