Steve was heard muttering to Paul Nixon 
 about lost messages 
 SG> Handgun License.  If you have failed to pay taxes, defaulted on a
 SG> student loan, or failed  to pay child support then you are not eligible
 SG> for a CHL. They don't  check your credit rating or income, but they do
 PN> *ou consider that to be "within reason"?
 SG> Well, yes, in the sense that we have allowed them to grant us
 Okay...
 SG> As I say, we shouldn't need licenses in the first place. But as long
 SG> as  there are licenses, they have the power to revoke them or refuse to
 SG> issue them given sufficient cause. Totally reasonable. Built upon a
 SG> false  premise, but logically consistent.
 You sound like Mr. Spock .
 True, it is logically consistent for them to create restrictions.  OTOH
 I do not believe that _any_ restriction of a right can be moral.
 Logic ain't always "right."
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