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Sorry, but I've gotta go w/the Sheriff on this one. The best and most reliable way to predict someone's future actions is to examine their past performance.

I agree. Therefore, since the man hasn't been drunk in 10 years, give him his permit.

We don't know that he hasn't BEEN drunk in the last 10 years, just that he hasn't been caught DRIVING drunk in 10 years. Maybe they (finally) took his license. Most states have laws prohibiting guns in alcohol establishments, because guns and alcohol don't mix (alcohol and pretty much anything that involves judgment don't mix, like....driving).

Do you think maybe that there's more here than meets the eye?

If the Sheriff didn't follow the rules, that's another issue, but I still think this is the last guy I would want walking around w/a pistol under his jacket.

Do you really think the CCW process should just be rubber stamped for anyone who just WANTS to have one?

PS, Are you guys the same folks who holler "Foul" when Hillary Clinton (boo, hiss!!!) proposes letting felons vote (another of her colossally stupid ideas)? Can't have it both ways ("he's paid his debt", "what about the last ten years", etc...).

My bottom line is that there are always going to people, who by the choices they have made in their lives, are going to be prohibited from exercising some of the privileges that other more circumspect and diligent citizens enjoy.

That's just the way it is. If you screw up, "sin loi", suck it up and drive on. If society cuts you off from something, that's called "consequence", and you learn to live w/it and shouldn't go whining to a judge when you don't get your way.