A newspaper is publishing a list of handgun carry permit holders. Again.

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A newspaper is publishing a list of handgun carry permit holders. Again.

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 | Guns |

This time it’s the Memphis Commercial Appeal. SayUncle has the details.

A list of legal Tennessee handgun carry permit owners is sort of like a sex offender database, except that the people in it are law-abiding members of society who paid to take a class, passed a written test and shooting test, passed a criminal background check, paid their $150 to get a government permit, registered their fingerprints with the local sheriff, and don’t have a history of crime, drug addiction or alcohol abuse, and are not the subjects of a restraining order or indictment. People, who, in many cases, are more law-abiding than the reporters writing the newspaper, and who statistically commit crimes less frequently than not only the general public, but less frequently even than police officers.

Clearly, newspapers must protect society from law-abiding menaces like us.

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