So... to address a couple of things people seem to think is beneficial, let me ask these questions:
Those that favor the training that is required in some states to obtain the permit, let me ask this:
Where is the evidence that there is any problem at all in the states that do not require training in order to carry a gun? What problem is there, IN REALITY, not in theory, that we are correcting with requiring training for the permit? Are people, IN REALITY, any safer in a state that requires training than they are in a state that does not? I don't see any blood running in the streets in any of the states that do not require training.
For those that say that it is good for Law Enforcement Officers. Would you say that a permit required to exercise your 4th Amendment rights would be equally as beneficial? Let's say a law was passed that during any traffic stop for any infraction that a law enforcement officer could legally require you to submit to a search of the vehicle, under threat of arrest for non-compliance, unless the operator of that vehicle had a permit that they were required to pay for, with fingerprints and a background check that exempted them from the requirement to submit to the search. How well would that fly? Why would that not be just as Constitutional as requiring a permit to carry a gun? Why can't the 4th Amendment be as "reasonably regulated" as the 2nd Amendment.