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Originally Posted by shcisamax
Just because criminals own them, doesn't make it a reason for civilians to own them. If there are no assault type weapons for sale, there will be a very limited black market for them and they would
be EXTREMELY expensive. Most criminals, and deranged individuals, the type you and I will come in contact with will never get their hands on them because they don't have lots of money. The cartel types and organized crime types will still but the majority of these disasters are not from cartels and organized crime. They are from street gangs, deranged people and low lifes.
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The folks or other relatives of the deranged might have access to assault weapons. And you can never really tell when someone with what appears to be mild mental health problems will break. There are a very large number of people in the US who have some kind of mild mental health problem.
http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?sec...mental_illness
I do not see any easy answers with preventing these kind of atrocities.