But union officials and state legislators who defend the current system say such a proposal ignores the fact that while state law grants police departments binding arbitration -- a bargaining tool most other public-employee unions do not enjoy -- it also denies officers the ultimate weapon, the right to strike.
"A country that is threatened by nuclear weapons has the right to have nuclear weapons," said Ms. Kim, a 26-year-old university student.
Conversely, suppose we stated the generals' doctrine as a principle: that any nuclear state which suspects another state of being about to acquire nuclear weapons has the right to attack that state - and with nuclear weapons if it has them.
In this case, though, the attorney general's office has picked the wrong weapons for the right fight.
Competition for recruits and weapons — and the right to define the character of the future state — has fueled the interrebel battles.
In the past you have said Iran should be denied not only nuclear weapons but the right to enrich uranium for civilian uses, a deal-killer.
But that nuance hasn't helped matters — probably because it's about as vague as Mr. McCain's call to "supply weapons to the right people".
The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbagh, said the Palestinians in the church, who had "put down their weapons," had the right to sanctuary.
"And that is no American boots on the ground, establish a safe zone, and to protect it and to supply weapons to the right people in Syria who are fighting for obviously, the things we believe in".
But India, striving to be more than just a regional power, sees its nuclear weapons as the right of an emerging major power that is a neighbor not only to Pakistan but also to China.
