U.S. 2nd Amendment

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I may not be the best person to answer this. I think David or someone else who actually has a CPL or an open carry license would have more informed answers, but you have me instead.

Do you have a procedure in order to obtain a weapon? Like criminal background check? Do you have a mental health evaluation before you're allowed to buy/carry a weapon?
Like do they do a thorough background check on you before you're allowed to carry a deadly weapon in public?

Yes, yes, yes. Though, it's all dependent on the state. I think in Texas, you don't do any of this, but Texas is as Texas does. In places like Illinois, it's fairly impossible to get any firearms, but Chicago has a very high gun crime rate. The coasts are very strict on gun laws, and the south is very lenient on gun laws.

It's insane to me, the chaos it has caused, school shootings, public murder, suicide, I even saw a video of a little girl playing with a gun and she accidentally shot her cousin and then herself right after.
Another video where a girl was pranking her boyfriend and hid in his 'pantry' before he came back from work, when he opened the door to grab something he shot her by accident. It's absolutely crazy.
It's just pure sad, civilians shouldn't be allowed to carry any weapons.

I find those people quite stupid and it's definitely very sad. There are gun cases and muzzle discipline for a reason... and people who fail to follow that are just not good people. I think civilian vs government is more so the important thing to me. It'd be scary to me seeing the military having all these weapons and I've zero way to defend myself. I think maybe the difference is in America, we don't trust the government, and in the UK, you do.

OK the UK isn't perfect we have knife crime and the odd shootings, but we have laws in place to keep civilians safe from other civilians. We have armed officers who arrive in different cars to the usual police officers, but we are OK without having guns on our hip whenever we leave the house.
To carry a gun as self defence is just beyond crazy, like you get yourself into a bad situation or live in a rough area then it's your choice to move or stay.

I think that's the most argued point here: the police take around 5 or so minutes to arrive, while taking out a gun from your holster takes less than a second. It's comforting to be able to defend yourself rather than waiting for a public servant to arrive.

Imagine shooting someone because they accidentally walked into the wrong house LMAO the US is crazy.

That's definitely crazy and I barely hear about this. For sure that's excessive force.