I don't think anyone is arguing either of those things, but 12k excess deaths in a country of 330 million means this should logically be incredibly low on our priority list.

What else with a 0.00006% (20k/330M) chance of happening are we walking around worried about every day?

Edit: Note that the correct answer here is that these mass shooting deaths are primarily focused on school children, and has become their (first? second?) leading cause of death at certain age groups. IMO we solve this by raising the gun purchase age to 26, because this is mostly school-age children shooting younger school-age children, then we can ignore the problem pretty much indefinitely.

> this should logically be incredibly low on our priority list.

0.00006% every year...

Why should there be a priority list? Why can't we improve multiple things simultaneously?

> we solve this by raising the gun purchase age to 26, because this is mostly school-age children shooting younger school-age children

This won't solve the problem. A Secret Service study of school attackers (2008–2017) [1] found that "Many of the attackers were able to access firearms from the home of their parents or another close relative."

[1] https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/Pr...