[nfb-talk] FW: NFB stand on Blind Child Area signs?

[Mike Freeman]

How is he going to know which house has blind residents without a sign?

Mike

On Aug 29, 2012, at 13:59, "Mike Edwards" <mike at ultraemail.us> wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> I know we're not more vulnerable, and so do you, but the average junky/criminal may try to hit the blind dude's house before the sighted guy's, because he believes it's an easier target.
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> 
>> But wait a minute. Don't the messages below carry their own subliminal
>> messages -- that the blind really *are* more vulnerable than are the
>> sighted? I don't buy it, at least not in general.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
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>> Yeah,  you may as well put up a neon sign: Blind person living here, please,
>> rob me.
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>> 
>>> I know that this has been discussed before on the NFB Blind law list
>>> and I  think that the concensus was that this was a bad idea. In the
>>> case that I  recall the issue was that signage was put up in a locality
>>> indicating  where  a blind person lived. Not only would it be