Applications for concealed carry permits have almost doubled in some Western North Carolina counties. Even ladies at church meetings are talking about buying guns while they can. The trend is not just local, as is evidenced by the Gannett News Service portion of this article. The cause is said to be NRA fear-mongering over the unlikelihood that President Obama would presume to take away an inalienable right of the people. Anybody with the audacity to try such a maneuver, of course, is not going to be frank and give ample warning.