| Hiku said:
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Not going to argue with the rest of this, out of time and lack of motivation, but this is a very skewed statistic. The statistic used by The Guardian uses a very generous definition of mass shootings, which includes things like a kid shooting a bunch of other kids with a bb gun. It is intentionally deceptive propaganda. We also must look at the per capita rate rather than absolute numbers.
The chances of one dieing from a mass shooting in the United States are comparable to other countries. 
Ignore Norway's number, it is a skewed outlier caused by the Breivik massacre.
The frequency of mass shootings is similarly comparable.
Here's the source data.
Now gang warfare is a problem in the United States, whereas it is much less of a problem in Europe. That is where a lot of the regular shootings come from. There are quite a few things we can do to solve gang warfare and further hasten the decrease in the already decreasing homicide rate. Improving the well-being of the poor and ending the war on drugs are probably the most effective solutions. Most young adults who obtain guns and murder other people obtain them for the issues surrounding poverty and the gangs which developed from rigid drug criminalization. As with most things in the U.S, the homicide rate is a consequence of inequality.
Still much progress is being made.
