I support concealed carry, but not for criminals. No problem with the permit.

You don't have a problem with North Carolina making you fill out paperwork, charging you a fee and keeping your information in a centralized data base just so you can exercise a right given to you by the federal government 235 years ago?

close 235 years ago The founders of our nation enumerated an inalienable right.
they didn't give it to you so their successors cant' take it away from you.

God gave you the right , they spelled out the god given right.

But it is for the common good, comrade.

So your telling me criminals don't carry because they can't get a permit? .

Think of it this way

CDC claims 44,447 gun deaths in 2024

of those
suicide 27,593
homicide 15,364
judicial intervention , AKA the police shot you 636
undetermined 404 some of these are likely suicide but with no note.
accidental 404

ok given 340,000,000 people and around a billion guns 404 accidents = 0.000001 if we could find a drug that was that widely used and had that few deaths it would be the safest drug around

so given the data , people apparently don't screw up carry that often.
and these numbers include all ages and at home , out hunting , everything.

also 15,364 homicides a 100% of those people were carrying illegally given crime stats most of them were probably already felons.
criminals don't follow laws so why burden the law abiding with law after law that is useless?

GCP, you have to stop making sense. Many here don’t understand that premise…LOL