Oops, upon returning to the post I made in this thread, I realize I failed to complete one of my sentences! My bad.
It read as "The thing is, though, liberal gun laws have done nothing to prevent them, as in pretty much all of the recent mass shootings we've gone through, including this one, the shooter(s) largely if not exclusively relied on guns that were illegally owned to begin with (i.e. guns that were stolen, or obtained in some sort of !"
The part in parentheses was meant to say "(i.e. guns that were stolen, or obtained in some sort of illicit trade, such as a drug dealer being given a gun as payment for drugs)".
Again, my bad. When I wrote that post, I was with my g/f, and she can be VERY good at diverting my attention from what I was typing!