Over the counter hearing aids are bad because....you'll never guess

[Fanatical Meat]

because OTC hearing aids will interfere with hunters right! Say gun group

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bo...vative-groups/WMAAAo9Z8zAK7AzZnrRUII/amp.html

A gun owners group argues that the legislation would impact hunters who purchase hearing enhancement devices as a way of better hearing their quarry. This, they say, is an infringement on their constitutional rights.

Almost forgot it's an Elizabeth Warren bill, I suspect that is the real problem

 

[DarthKyrie]

I can't even wrap my head around how this is an infringement on their right to bear arms and I'm pretty imaginative.

 

[theeedude]

Nice astroturf.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Me too, thing I heard on the radio was it wasn't attached to any other bill either (I believe wasn't listening)

 

[sandorski]

Hearing Aid regulation this week, FEMA camps for Gun Owners next week.

 

[preCRT]

It just proves how completely insane & thoughtless the gun groups are.

 

[Ns1]

gun nuts are cray cray.

 

[UNCjigga]

So the gun lobby is no longer concerned about gun rights, but they've amassed a nice tidy war chest and are putting it to use ahead of 2018 and 2020. Can't let liberals accomplish anything.

 

[Perknose]

This deserve a Congressional hearing, facilitated by aides . . . Congressional Hearing Aides!

 

[sdifox]

Wouldn't OTC make it easier for the hunters to buy hearing aids?

 

[vi edit]

So I actually took the time to read the article and to quote the words of a younger generation...."I literally can't even...."

There isn't a trout big enough to slap the ever loving stupidity out these idiots.

 

[Perknose]

Wouldn't OTC make it easier for the hunters to buy hearing aids?

That's just what Elizabeth Warren wants you to believe!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

That's just what Elizabeth Warren wants you to believe!

Hahaha so simple but so true

Now to be fair, I heard on local news this morning the gun group is concerned because current amplifiers are sold with minimal regulation provided they do not mention they can be used as hearing aids. The concern is a new category of OTC hearing aides will be created and these will have regulations attached to them because they are a health product. The gun groups fear the hunting amplifiers will get put into this category and prices will increase. Apparently some people with hearing loss buy the hunting products to save money.
So it's not as crazy as it first sounded but
A) The gun group is making some big assumptions
B) Elizabeth Warren

 

[ch33zw1z]

Gun groups making a big deal about this are morans. World doesn't revolve around you and your precious firearm.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Between the Portland killer and the Looney-Toon gun-nuts with their beef against Warren, I never realized there were so many delusional assholes in my country.

But wait. I've been de-sensitized. I've been forced to listen to the Master of All Assholes since late 2015. No -- since the Birther Frenzy. Since the Apprentice wasn't news, I simply chose not to watch it anymore. So it's a problem or conflict between being a responsible citizen with my own news-analysis, and looking out for my own health by avoiding reality altogether.

Maybe to avoid civil war, we might see the emergence of underground fight clubs, pitting Trumpies against regular human beings. Some days I wake up thinking that I'd like to beat one senseless and unrecognizable. The fight clubs should keep the guns out of the equation. Eventually, the outcomes would favor the smarter, even if they're lightweights.

 

[xthetenth]

Wait, can we use this as a backdoor to get constitutional protection to a sufficient education to cover physics up through ballistics and trigonometry? Because if so, I'm on board.

Now to be fair, I heard on local news this morning the gun group is concerned because current amplifiers are sold with minimal regulation provided they do not mention they can be used as hearing aids. The concern is a new category of OTC hearing aides will be created and these will have regulations attached to them because they are a health product.

To me it sounds like the idea is that those are the OTC hearing aids, and so if they aren't actively dangerous (which they probably have to meet regardless), they'll be fine, and potentially able to reach a bigger market now that consumers can be reached directly rather than needing to know the euphemisms used. If they can't meet the OTC requirements, then one would assume that they remain amplifiers rather than OTC hearing aids and the world keeps turning.

Also, I freaking wish that being priced out of something was considered being denied access to it by these folks in other circumstances.

 

[zinfamous]

Gun groups making a big deal about this are morans. World doesn't revolve around you and your precious firearm.

Well this is totally shocking and I, for one, could have never predicted that such a group was both so insular and so profoundly misguided.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I can't even follow the nra's argument. How's Billy Bob and Bubba going to?

 

[ch33zw1z]

You're just reading to deeply....stay on the surface....Elizabeth Warren

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I can't even follow the nra's argument. How's Billy Bob and Bubba going to?

To be clear its not the NRA as of yesterday.

 

[Smoblikat]

I uhhh.....Im really trying.......can anyone explain how having easier, cheaper, and more choices of hearing aid will cause literally any negatives at all to anyone (besides greedy ass companies I guess)? What...

 

[WHAMPOM]

Gun groups making a big deal about this are morans. World doesn't revolve around you and your precious firearm.

Not when you consider the Freudian substitute for firearm.


edit: WOW!! That does explain the crazy found in the NRA now don't it!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Not when you consider the Freudian substitute for firearm.


edit: WOW!! That does explain the crazy found in the NRA now don't it!

Wasn't from the NRA, the posted story that is