Aircraft are very heavily regulated to prevent accidents. Any time there's a major incident we move heaven and earth to investigate and mitigate it so that particular failure doesn't happen again. As a result, US airlines have had one fatal crash in the last ~16 years or so.

> Do you want to stop all airplanes from flying?

No, but I want steps taken to prevent them from crashing.

> (also, you sneakily added 2 qualifiers: US, Airlines)

That's hardly sneaky. We're talking about the US. It would be odd to discuss gun violence and airline safety from, say, Somalia.

We have aircraft safety regulations to mitigate deaths from air accidents and we have gun regulations and gun safety regulations for the same reasons.

Let's stop pretending this is a black and white matter

Have you ever seen me advocate for aircraft deaths to justify the continued existence of human powered aviation? I'm sure you're trying to be clever, but you seem lack the requisite abilities.