when you're hunting I'm sorry you're
gonna need a little bit of help when
your mind
this is my latest gun permit I've
renewed this gun permit for several
years since I got my first one in
October of 2000 this is a 357 Magnum
this is the gun that I got the concealed
weapons permit in the first place in
Maine history and that's been confirmed
you don't have to put parentheses around
it and I've been carrying concealed 13
years you know I passed military
guidelines of proficiency in the Army
ROTC
I passed the NRA's exam on proficiency
to my forebears have been hunters you
know I mean deer hunters bird hunters I
come from a long line of military
personnel this here is an ak-47 7.62
caliber this is a bolt-action 13 at 6
this is what I killed the bear with and
this is not the way I wanted to end up
if he was alive his claws are kind of
sharp and stuff Remington 12-gauge
shotgun
I hear the voices of my children ringing
I rely on his ability to walk and he
relies on my ability to see I think
we're stuck we have this um it's by Huey
Lewis in the news it's um yes it's true
yes it's true I'm so happy to be stuck
with you that's kind of our song
actually he's a very normal guy I mean
you know obviously we live in a trailer
so we don't have a lot of money but you
know how he affords to go hunting you
know we don't go out to eat we don't go
out to movies we don't really have any
expensive hobbies I mean I like to color
okay to my wife she was scared of guns
before she met me and my daughter oh
shoot now she's a hunter she's down
three deer and six pheasant sore self
so you're over there where me oh that's
oh that's Dave Dave it's his birthday
today what can I say basically I always
keep one gun for home defense and I
always have one gun for concealed carry
9-millimeter I have an actual cooler
jacket what this one
get your car over here yep right there I
feel it with the future vision yeah what
I told you that facial vision yeah I
feel it it's like right there
scientifically there's this thing called
facial vision and they've said that
people that are blind to have facial
vision it helps you maneuver around
echolocation kind of thing it's
basically the same kind of stuff that
whales and bats use only it's not as as
prominent now I'm heading towards the
liquor store in the gun shop it's like
what wine goes with the 30.6 you know
sidewalk okay that is a shorter barrel
look I'm a round clip is that 15 10 no
it's not 10 that's a 10 millimeter meter
and the 45 we're the same frame I like
that I like the action the way of pools
and stuff you know it's gonna I have to
definitely take a look at that I gotta
save up my pennies a little bit but it's
nice to know that I can I'll probably
get it by spring
I do carry every day since the dog
attack especially I wasn't carrying
during the dog attack unfortunately I
was walking to get my mail June 9th
mo 9 I heard scraping claws like running
behind me and I just thought it was a
dog just coming to you and either they
run and jump on you sometimes you know
but then it was like being hit in the
back with a sledgehammer full of teeth
and then the shirt just disappeared and
stuff it's three German Shepherds very
large ambush me on the street it's the
one that got my shoulder really bad up
here basically it's going down my throat
but my army was in the way so if I were
to dropped an arm to try to get a gun
there wouldn't be anything protecting my
throat any way through basically tore my
my shoulder apart more or less my
shoulder blade is currently not attached
to my body I'm herniated disc in my back
plus a slipped disc in my back I can't
feel anything from where the dog's fangs
went into my bone on my lower leg now
I'm pretty much on a regiment's until
death pretty much I had very bad PTSD
from the attack I mean I was having
blackouts from from the fear of it the
nightmares are just nasty you wake up
basically in terror can't move that's
terrible I mean it's it's really a
horrible way to live
because of the dog attack I had decided
to go Gator hunting I hid it in the back
of the head I think I was it almost felt
like I was standing over it so it's
probably only a couple of feet from the
head I felt like I'm confident I can do
this if I can take on something that's
basically more or less of dinosaur left
over then why am i running from dogs and
having neighbors and all this other
stuff from it I got a gator tattoo here
it's to remind me about the Gator hunt
that basically took on a predator that
could have killed and eaten all three of
my assailants with each predator I take
I feel a little bit more confident yeah
that's the shark ikot the tiger shark I
feel like a male model I sought some
professional help to help me with the
PTSD and he actually saw how hunting and
the outdoors were benefiting me so he
wrote out a prescription to say that I
needed it for my for my mental health
you know
I used to be an anti gunner so I know
how religious the anti-gun hunting crowd
is
then I thought one day I go well I'll
just go and I'll stick one in the ground
call it hunting when I did it when I
pulled the trigger I felt like the
biggest in the world my guy who
brings me over to the deer
you know I touched my deer and all of a
sudden I felt part of the system
well you wasn't going anywhere with that
one
basically as a hunter I feel like I'm
the whole part of the ecosystem I'm the
predator that's where I really belong
got all the leg up for you okay there's
your balls like all your balls okay I
don't plan not to let go of my ball you
know in the wild you're listening to
nature and that's where I hear God the
best and I get more out of that than
going to church that is my church and
when I hunt them doing it in fair chase
and I don't feel like I'm doing wrong
it's part of the reason why I'm more
into hunting and that kind of stuff in
the outdoors right now because I find
dealing with bears and alligators are
way more sensible than dealing with some
of these people that assume that I am so
evil or whatever for having a gun and
that's ridiculous
well the outdoors has never vilified me
never never thought I was a bad person
for having a gun on me
I had people say to me a blind person is
an idiot and doesn't know how to have a
gun and shouldn't have a gun quite
honestly I would be more worried about
Joe hunt down the street having a gun
because Joe putt down the street doesn't
have training and doesn't know how to
use a gun this is the ar-15 my wife
bought me this because basically all the
assault rifles and the ammunition were
going out the door because everybody's
afraid of the return of the assault
weapons ban anybody that has access to
this kind of stuff has got to have their
marbles what that's safe is fine
you have a certain element of the
society that's just mentally incapable
of handling guns but get off blind
people's backs because the deal is that
even though you don't have eyesight you
have a brain there are no numbers to
support the fact that there's a lot of
blind people involved in mass shootings
or accidental shootings so it's kind of
like blaming farts for tornadoes
good thing daddy brushes your teeth