Instead of reporting, each time an armed robbery, home invasion, or car-jacking occurred, that the violent attacker did NOT have a license to carry, the news media set about to publish lists containing the private, personal information of license-holders, not unlike the state publishes records about registered sex offenders.

On the plus side, there are a lot of pols that are figuring out that losing ONLY the gun nut vote is enough to keep you out of office ...