The national CCW for LEO's, current and retired, truely is a "foot in the door" for the rest of us plain ordinary citizens.
And now I'll get politically incorrect...........
I think that, given the present political climate, an across the board national CCW just isn't going to happen....... unless......... terrorist sleeper cells already in place within our country suddenly become very active in many different places for a prolonged period of time. Were that to happen the average citizen everywhere would realize there really is a war going on and would arm themselves accordingly. I hope and pray that war never comes to our country in that fashion since there is very little defense, aside from individual self defense, against such a threat.