Colorado Shootings -- One Life Ended to Save Others

[Myrddraal]

You can build an AK-47 in your basement

No, I can't. Maybe you can Sasaki, but I'd be really interested to see you try, and make some ammunition that doesn't blow up in your face. Maybe if you had an AK47 in bits you could put it back together in your basement.

Besides, even if you could, it doesn't add anything. An unstable teenage kid in a country where he has to build an AK47 in his basement, or an unstable teenage kid in a country where he can walk into a shop and buy one, which one's going to go shoot some people?

As for it being a red herring, I'd agree. It's not the differences in control, it's the differences in culture and attitude to guns that makes the difference in violent crimes.