Criminals have carried and will continue to carry without approvals, permits and training for years and they’re worried that law abiding citizens might carry too?
Guess they didn’t/don’t know that it’s against the law. How stupid do they have to be to not understand that bad guys don’t give two dumps about the laws. ;>}
Uh, otherwise law abiding citizens have been carrying without permits for years. They just hope they won't get caught. As you say, criminals do carry and continue to do so without worrying too much. From my own experience in San Francisco over the past few decades I've seen numerous handguns carried by regular decent citizens without permits; only a few politically connected persons (like Dianne Feinstein) had permits.
It's at the point where you see laws regularly ignored on the left (as in protections for illegal aliens etc.) that some laws are becoming meaningless and beg to be ignored in order to get by in life.