If you and your shooting buddies want to give into hysteria, that's your right. Personally, I'm less concerned about the mundane policy requirements for pistol certifications and more concerned about things like Obama's Office of Diviserity and Civil Rights.
In time, we will have no civil rights nor any diversity from state-sanctioned ideology. I’m perfectly content to plan and prepare and be called “hysterical” in the interim by people who can’t bring themselves to believe that what is happening before their eyes is in fact, real. Obama is a Marxist, and so are most of those around him. I will never trust my security to their intentions.