So, again, how do you reconcile that with the 2nd Amendment?
the 2A guarantees blanket, "no questions" concealed carry as a constitutional right? the NRA wouldn't dare take that into federal court, and you and I both know why.
I think the system works pretty well now, the states and the voters in those states get to decide - balancing the constitutional protection - if they restrict too far, there is a method of due process to slap them back. if the people decide through their elected representatives to change their laws, they can.
As I recall, didn't Texas have restrictive CCW laws many years ago - and wasn't their some famous case about a mass killer at a restaurant, and no one had a gun to take him down, and that case became the focus of changing the laws? that's the way the system should work.