You also pull every death by gun into the equation (including single murders) and that number has to go to about 3,000 to 1.
Yeah, I mean, I'm just making assumptions of the numbers with no stats to back me up, but I feel pretty safe in the assumption that gun violence, whether accidental, domestic violence, or mass shootings, skews wildly towards handguns being the primary culprit in just about every metric.
But it's not front page national news when gang violence results in a guy shooting 5 thugs over a drug deal with a handgun. It's not even national news when someone breaks into a house and kills a family of 4 or 5 with a handgun. People think, I can avoid these situations. I can not live dangerously, I can not get involved with gangs and drugs, I can lock my doors, I can get a security system.
But when some nut goes to a public place and goes on a shooting spree, that is way more terrifying because of it's seemingly random nature, and that there's nothing you can do to stop it, other than be armed whenever you are in public. So it grabs the attention and creates an emotional response.
It's like the fear of plane crashes. Even though everyone who refuses to fly in a plane due to the fear of crashing, probably fiddles with their radio while driving, which is only about a million times more likely to result in their death than flying in a plane.