How do they afford a gun?

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Not only the guns. Guns by themselves cannot really be deemed deadly. Guns need ammunition in order to be weaponised. I read this article about a teenager shooting a school principal. I also read a week or so ago about some migrant teenager shooting a woman in New York's Times Square. First of all, the teenager in South Africa is already two years older than the age he should be in that class. Secondly, guns over there are very tightly controlled, it is almost impossible to have a legal firearm, let alone get ammunition. Thirdly, the teenager in New York is a migrant, presumably with few if any monetary resources (well, OK I might be wrong, but if you are going to give people free housing, food and clothing, it is probably correct to assume they have no money). Nobody has yet mentioned where either of these teenagers managed to get guns from. Or where they got the ammunition from. If they managed to purchase it, how did they get money? If they used their parents' firearms and ammunition, how did the parents afford it (the mean household income in SA is around $350 per month, barely adequate to feed a family, let alone but guns and ammunition, as for the migrants, see above)? If it is this easy for a teenager to arm himself, obtain ammunition and shoot someone, then controls and licensing is clearly not the answer. If firearms and ammunition are so cheap that migrants and louts in school can afford it, then maybe controls are not the issue. Maybe these things should be far more expensive. As for the age and the moral standing, that is an entirely different debate. https://www.ewn.co.za/2024/02/16/its-believed-learner-shot-school-principal-after-he-was-chastised-to-study-says-gp-edu-dept