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The topic was mas shootings, not gun deaths. Mass shootings are an extremely small percentage of all firearm deaths. And even that statistic doesn't matter, because MOST gun deaths aren't murders, they are suicides or accidents.
Source for mass shootings though since you asked
https://www.statista.com/statistics/811541/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-state/