I considered not applying for a CWP for quite a while, but finally did so a couple of weeks ago. My thinking was based on my philosophical resistance to getting a license to exercise a basic right, and I'm still troubled by this. The fact that South Carolina is moving in the right direction, CWP's are now good for 4 years and there's movement on making them permanent, made the compromise possible for me. South Carolina also has a very aggressive
pro-self defense group whose power is increasing year by year helped to seal my decision.
Concern about future government confiscations certainly isn't misplaced; it's happened in California and New York already, and is likely in Illinois and New Jersey soon. I don't think it's likely in the Western states, nor the south, probably not ever unless the continued erosion of America as an armed culture is allowed to take place via government schools. Time will tell.
If that does happen in the near term, I think it might be the thing that will galvanize gun owners against the state, without regard to parties; and become the state's undoing.