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Depends what you mean by that. Someone who suffers from a mental health issue (or really any other health issue) can suddenly become too poor to afford proper care.
You people keep using these generic terms without ever explaining what they mean. You can get a semi-automatic handgun (which is responsible for the overwhelming majority of firearm deaths) for ~$200 or a bare-bones AR-15 (which the entire category of "rifles" is responsible for fewer deaths than literally just hands and feet) for ~$300.
I'm not trying to parse out the difference between lever action, semi auto, assault style, assault rifle, etc... That's all besides the point of my original supposition: poverty does not cause mass shootings.
There are millions of people in poverty and none of them are doing mass shootings. They're almost all lower middle and middle class people going on these senseless rampages.
LOL no, it was the basis of your supposition...