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Criminals do go into gun shops to buy guns. All of the guns used in recent mass shootings were purchased legally by the gunman or by someone in the gunman's own household which gave the madman much easier access to a weapon than if he had to break into a strangers house or into a gun store. Here in NY, they've traced the source of guns used in street crimes and found that they were often purchased legally in states like Virginia.
The USA doesn't have a monopoly on insane people with violent tendencies but mass shootings happen much less frequently outside the US. Other countries crazy people don't seem to "get weapons anyway", at least not as easily as they do here.
Limiting magazine capacity and closing the gun show loophole seem like obvious first steps. Getting a gun license should have at least as much involved as getting a driver license. A written test, a class and a "road test" with an qualified instructor. It wouldn't stop every madman but it could stop a few.
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