I thought that enlightened European countries do not allow nutters to have access to guns?
I think they try to avoid allowing access to guns to everyone.
If you like target shooting, buy an air rifle. Or even a Walther air pistol: it was good enough for 007 to model with for his famous poster!
Because the same person can certainly learn to drive and use that licence to drive as licence to kill does not, in any way, mean that making the access of firearms simple a good idea. The net result/intention is to make the possibilities open to the would-be killer as few as possible. As I've remarked before, I would love a legal gun for my own self-protection, but realise that having that, legally, would simply make it all the more easy for the guy in the black hat to do the same, and if not get his legally, get it by stealing somebody else's. Seems they are good at that.
Thing is, this ain't mathematics: two negatives do not make a positive.
I think people bringing in the concept of anti-Americanism are flirting with red herrings; I don't think I've seen anyone here being anti-American, simply venting frustration at laws which aid these terrible slayings, a political system financed and distorted by the very people making the weapons, and their blatant, open buying of politicians. It's incredible to anybody outside the system that it's legal to do that. But there you go; it's how it is.
Non-Americans find it hard to tell if that means Americans approve or do not approve of the system; seems many of them hold very different views on that subject.
Rob