re: Conceal Carry w/o a permit Bill filed today!

I'd prefer police be able to immediately pull a guy off the street for carrying concealed without a permit.

And it also requires that people who are going to legally carry concealed have to at least sit through training on the legal aspects. I can't tell you how many misconceptions about what is necessary for a legal self-defense shooting I've cleared up for people who were sure that they already knew the law. Hell, I've even heard the "shoot them on the porch and drag them in" thing a few times, and I thought everybody KNEW that was a bad joke.

As far as an 8 hour class being a waste of time...8 hours is not a lot of time, but it's 8 more than 0 hours. Considering that the subject of the 8 hour class is life or death, and freedom vs prison time, maybe 8 paltry hours isn't that big a deal?