@BillRM,
That's not all you can't figure out. It's inertia, taking the easy route, driving an automatic is easy compared to a manual. In the UK if you take your test in an automatic you're only licenced to drive automatics, and as most cars are manual transmission, it's only an option for the most helpless of individuals. Not in America, being unfamiliar with a manual gearbox will have little effect on one's ability to get on the road. Similarly lots of kids don't see the point in learning to tell the time with a standard clock face, not with digital displays all over the place.
I never suggested American's were incapable of learning to drive a manual, just that so many can't be bothered, maybe not your generation, but certainly those below yours.
The same is true of guns, with an arsenal of guns one can make a big statement very easily. If the same person needed to surf the dark web to manufacture bombs they won't find it as easy.
You want to make it easier for such people to operate. All of your nonsense about bombs flies in the face of common sense, and your relaxed attitude towards a 14 year old illegally purchasing a gun shows you're not remotely interested in responsible gun ownership.
You've spent far too much time on the dark web, that you've managed to normalise your perverse attitude towards the sexual exploitation of women and children amongst other things.
As always you exemplify the most base impulses of humanity. Normal people don't think like that.