A much-better-than-you’d expect piece from the BBC on shooters who happen to be blind.
Upside: some great interviews with blind shooters, some of whom are startlingly accomplished with firearms.
No, I’m not making that up.
Downside: while journos do usually try to find a counterpoint on any story, the best the Beeb could come up with was Stevie Wonder, who apparently thinks the idea of blind people with guns is crazy. And if you can afford as many bodyguards as Wonder can (assuming he needs them), he could be forgiven the assumption.
I used to produce a show for Don Vogel, a blind guy who hosted a talk show at KSTP in the eighties. After beating him in “Horse” by “HOR” to “HORSE”, I suggested a trip to the range. He was interested, but we could never quite pull it together.
Anyway – the article is worth a read!
I miss Don. I always danced in the car to his Friday afternoon Highway to Hell singalongs in his 2nd stint at KSTP. Willie Griffith and “Tunderbird Wiiiiiiine” ALWAYS made me LMAO. The one thing I’ll never forget, he called a psychic hotline. They asked him his name, and he instantly shot right back, “well, YOU’RE the psychic, you should know that already!” I’ve got his “Best Of” CD stashed somewhere in the house.