Most of those firearm deaths aren’t school shootings. Sending your kid to play at a friend’s house where the parents have guns is a reasonable concern. Being afraid to send your kid to school every day because of a mass shooter is much less reasonable.

can’t even safely walk alone in public during the night or safely send your kid to school

This isn’t true, the media just makes it look that way. The instances of school shooting are very dramatic, but statistically, your kid is in more danger on the drive to school than from a school shooting.

Spotify will force you to listen to an ad by pausing it if you mute the volume, then resuming it when you unmute.

I quit Spotify long ago so I don’t know if they still do it today, but they do have a way to force ads.