I personally know of people who have carried for years with no CFL, no training, and they have probably shot all of 30 rounds through their gun in their life. Is that good?
By the same token I don't feel we should have a comprehensive firearms training course akin to the drivers' ed type classes most states mandate.
However, I think if you are going to carry a pistol, the purpose of which is to preserve your life in a close surroundings in which other noninvolved targets may be destroyed, hurt or killed, you should put up with a LITTLE insurance that you know what the **** you are doing. What's wrong with proving your competence? Maybe a multi staged permit...?
The whole problem most anti CCW people see is that fear that the wild west syndrome will take over. They see CCW as this evil geniie that will make us all turn into roving bands of murderers. And popular media has done more to reinforce the negative stereotype than nearly anything else.