Look the whole thing in a nutshell, you don't have to be any more scared of a firearm then you do a car or anything else, if those owning a firearm are well trained, own it in a legal manner and are stable. I grew up surrounded by them and everyone I know carried. Never a problem of any type never an accidental shooting, nothing but these are people that knew firearms since birth. Where the problem lays is the gun laws vary so much from state to state that it is hard to make that determination of good guy or bad guy. In regard to Concealed Carry, have a look at NY's criteria. Like I said before, the finger printing, the FBI checks, the approval of the local police and sheriff and judge and a training certificate. Yet the shooting continue. Why because of so many illegal firearms on the street coming in from other states. A much needed federal standard would make things a lot better for the good citizen who wants to own and harder for the bad guy who wants to own. Nobody who is into the legal ownership of handguns wants to see them in the hands of criminals, no do we want to see a dozen new laws that do nothing to make things better. If they want gun shows, no problem but at least enforce the full background check and put some thing in place to prevent these shopping spree's by bad guys who take them to states like NY. A simple measure like that would help a lot. Passing a dozen new laws that do nothing will not help anything.