Is an example of the drastically different tone this sort of thing takes where I'm from. In Alaska you don't even need a license to concealed carry. Other than some zoning for schools and stuff, the only important rule is if you're talking to a cop, you have to tell him you're carrying.
In Illinois this shit is hilariously skewed the other way around. Bringing a gun somewhere is like bringing a starving tiger into the room. There's this obvious nervous terror about them you can hear in everyone's voices when they talk about them.
It actually makes me think that, as pro gun as I am, this shit ought to be decided regionally. I'm fine with the legislature of a culture that's nervous or uncomfortable about guns trying to interpret all the ineptly-crafted gun laws as restrictively as they want. I say that as someone who thinks that the entire logical foundation of gun control is the single most ass backwards idea I have ever heard. It is literally "Wolf problem? Add more sheep" incarnate.
But when I hear how people who grow up in gun-free cultures react to them, it makes me think that maybe their populations are too skittish about guns to get any constructive use out of them. California is the kind of place where Feinstein's "150 Big Meany Things that Scare Me" gun laws get some traction. I may be stereotyping here, but I can't help but think that any region that tries to restrict 1890's garage-build technology because of a visceral reaction might not have the collective temperament to handle the idea that anyone at any time might be holding the device that most of them are irrationally and reflexively terrified of.
