If politicians had brains, they would have long noticed that among the countries not involved in wars or civil war like situations, the amount of gun-related deaths in the US has the highest count. Accidents, murder, suicide, whatever - each and every category.
And if they had backbones, they would have done something about it, like implementing gun controls like every other civilized country has. My country has effective gun control, and the amount of firearms-related deaths is in the “below 0.2 in a million” category.