Just for fun I did some calculations based upon the 108,000 CCW permits currently in effect in South Dakota. That works out to 1 in every 5.8 people in the state over the age of 21 (minimum age for permit issuance) having a permit and potentially carrying a firearm in public. One out of every six people you see in public is licensed to carry and could be carrying there in the grocery store or at the gas station, etc. And yet, despite all the dire warnings of "wild west", "shootouts over parking places", etc. that we hear time and time again from the idiots politicians here in Hawaii, such things have not happened in South Dakota, nor anywhere else in the United States where a substantial portion of the population is licensed/permitted to carry, nor the dozen-plus states where people may carry without any permission slip from the government. That means, that the people here making such claims are either 1. dumb as a fucking rock ignorant of the facts, 2. lying, or 3. know something about the people of Hawaii that makes them different from the people living in the rest of the United States where people may exercise their right to bear arms and there is no consequent mayhem (the statistics of millions of licenses issued over the past 30 years actually shows that licensees are far more law-abiding than even cops, who are far more law-abiding than the general public). I have written every state legislator, and my Hawaii county legislators and bureaucrats, several times, and asked them to reveal to me what it is they know, and how they know it, that Hawaii residents are more likely than their mainland counterparts to become irresponsible criminals once they are licensed to carry in public. Not surprisingly, not one single one of them has ever responded, much less provided an answer, which isn't surprising, since we all know there is no answer and they are lying. Just sayin'...