Lebanon County President Judge Robert J. Eby made the right decision Tuesday in restoring Meleanie Hain’s concealed-weapon permit.

And he was also 100 percent on the mark when he chastised the Lebanon mother of three and day-care provider for her appalling lack of common sense in wearing a holstered but openly visible handgun to her 5-year-old daughter’s soccer game last month.

Pennsylvania does not have any law to prevent a law-abiding citizen from carrying an openly displayed weapon in public. It’s unlikely we ever will get such a law, given the politically charged nature of the issue and the overly broad brush with which the state’s Constitution paints the matter, apparently forbidding even discussion of it. (Section 21: “The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned.”)

It is, however, illegal to carry a concealed weapon in Pennsylvania without a permit. The now-infamous pistol-packing soccer mom had such a permit, and that’s what Sheriff Michael DeLeo revoked in response to parents’ and league officials’ complaints about her wearing the gun at a game. DeLeo’s rationale, as he explained it, was that by wearing the gun in such a situation, Hain constituted a threat to public safety, which justified revoking her permit.

The problem with DeLeo’s logic is that his action — revoking Hain’s concealed-weapon permit — was irrelevant to the stupid thing she did — wearing the gun openly to a children’s event. In fact, many people who have commented on the case have conceded that Hain’s behavior would have caused less trouble if the weapon had been concealed. The problem, by that way of thinking, wasn’t so much that she had the gun; it was the inflammatory, in-your-face manner in which she carried it. Because DeLeo’s action failed to address the actual problem, it gave the appearance of being punitive when in fact Hain had broken no law.

Hain appealed the revocation, which led to Tuesday’s hearing, in which again Eby rendered the correct decision.