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Is Constitutional carry any different than Open Carry or Campus Carry? We fought the "establishment" at each one of those points with the usual Bloomberg/Brady/Watts leading the way and political police chiefs adding their negative comments. And nothing happened. Sure there are a few who now open carry regularly where before they couldn't and I'm sure that there are a few more guns on campuses than there might have been. But neither of those laws significantly changed the gun carrying landscape so winning the battle to get them passed was perhaps the most important point about them. Before the fee structure and the class lengths for LTC were changed, those posed more of a barrier to someone wanting a license than they do today. And if you believe that anecdotal evidence from police during traffic stops that 50percent of the LTC don't carry regularly, there wasn't as much impact from even that law and the license statistics might portray.

I believe that more people don't carry regularly because of the labyrinth of laws that they must consider rather than the inconvenience of having to put on a gun or the discomfort from having it on. I think that crosses the license/no license boundary. Very few people put the time and effort into figuring out those laws that the members on this forum have. But one only has to look at the questions on almost any important subject to day to realize how uninformed the general public is. I know people with an LTC who say that thinking about all of that makes their head hurt. I cannot imagine how the people without the classroom information would feel differently. That is more of a barrier than whether or not there is a license, IMHO.