EXACTLY! I was talking with my wife last night about this and other types of gun crimes. The knee jerk reaction by politicians (on both sides, seemingly) is that "we need to make a new law". And as I pointed out to my wife, anecdotally, no law will ever stop a crimal from committing a crime.
The thing to do is arm the population (not necessarily literally) with the possibility that he or she can be packing at anytime, anywhere. When a criminal knows, for certain, that the law abiding citizen CANNOT legally be 'concealing/carrying' then EVERYONE is a mark.
Planting a little doubt in the crimnal and empowering the law abiding citizen is the way to go. And besides, we all know (or should know) that most criminals don't obtain guns by legal means anyway.
What?? You mean the shooter didn't go thru the background check and waiting period, didn't take his weapon down to the cop shop and have it checked over? But...but they told me I couldn't have a handgun unless I did that. Said it was the LAW!
There oughta be a law: No laws for guns, everyone who wants to, carries. We should at least create the illusion of an even playing field.