If you are a member of the body of the people you have the God given right to own as many firearms as you want and can afford and the right to do what you will with them as long as you infringe on no one else s rights. This means the state has to prove why you shouldn t get the permit in order to deny it rather than requiring you to prove why you should in order to get it. This means that concealed carry permit holders may not pack in restaurants where liquor is served. Because we are law abiding citizens we obey. Now, no one wants to make his job any harder or more dangerous than it needs to be and your average criminal is no different.
Armed citizens do both.
Being sensible criminals they have realized that darkened restaurant parking lots are now prime hunting ground. Any good manager knows that if you subsidize behavior you will get more of it. We subsidize welfare recipients to have illegitimate children by paying for them. They had more children. We subsidized Bill Clinton s abuse of power by giving him ever higher approval ratings.