A License to Own a Gun? Do I Hear a License to Own a Gun, Rep. King?

Wingnut Rep. Steve King Compares Marriage to Selling Alcohol and Cutting Hair. (Crooks and Liars, 3/27/2013)

Excerpt(bullet points added): “The state’s require a marriage license,” King said. “A license is by definition a permit to do that which is otherwise illegal. Licenses are used to direct and regulate human behavior — 

• a license to drive, 
• a license to fish, 
• a license to hunt, 
• a license to cut hair, 
• a license to do brain surgery, or 
• a license to join the bar, or 
• actually own a bar. 

And this is all a proper thing for our state to do because they are regulating and promoting certain kinds of activity and behavior.