Because an AK47 is for one purpose and one purpose only - overkill. All guns are instruments of death. That is their only purpose. However, an automatic weapon simply exists to deliver it over and over again in the most rapid way possible. It's overkill, pure and simple.

I've said this before, many times. The United States leads the world's richest countries in gun deaths. As a matter of fact, you would have to COMBINE the gun deaths in numerous other countries in order to equal the number of gun deaths in the United States.

In a study published in 1998, the USA had 14.24 gun deaths per 1,000. Canada, so similar to the US in demographics, had only 4.31. Is it because Americans are inherently more violent, or does it have to do with our gun laws and our attitude?