Your discussion of whether negative outcomes require a political solution or not is changing the subject. That has to do with whether the left's efforts to promote equality through political solutions would be considered appropriate or effective, which has nothing whatsoever to do with "equivalency" between right and left. This isn't a simply a matter of conservatives advocating for group A and liberals advocating for group B as you originally suggested.
You say its not about A and B but then...
The fact is that the left advocates for those who don't have the lion's share of wealth or political power, while the right just wants the dominant group to maintain its wealth power. There is no mirror equivalency here.
Left advocates for those who are not in the top, call them group B, and the Right advocates for those currently in power, call them group A.
Group A has the majority of the top positions. Group B does not and the Left believes this is due to societies bias. The reason the Left believes there is a bias, is because they look at the outcomes that when compared to Group A are not as good. Now, if you follow the logic that outcomes when compared to other groups can show a problem, then that should also apply when Group A has outcomes not as good as Group B. In this case, Group A with a suicide rate higher than Group B should in theory show a bias. If your logic that those in power show a problem, then suicide should also show a problem. Yet, the left chooses to focus their energy on helping Group B with their specific issues. The Left currently is not about helping problems of groups they dont think deserve help. Look at how others on here responded when I pointed it out. I will give you credit that you did not do that, but Jhnn is squarely on the left and look at how he responds. It goes along with the idea of "punching up". Just because someone is a white male should not mean their suicide is more or less trivial which is what Jhnn was doing. If a black person is suffering, it should not be more or less important that they are black. Yet look at Jhnn.
That said, the point was that we see targeted solutions for minorities because that is a group that the left advocates for, and the right which promotes policies that help white men but not explicitly intended.
It is a fundamental difference in core values. Whatever you think about which problems are appropriately addressed through public policy and which are not, there is no equivalency here.
I'm not strongly supportive of gun control BTW. I just found it ironic that the problem you identified for white men is something which between the two of us we could come up with two possible solutions, be they good ones or bad, and both were things pursued by the left, not the right.
The point was not that we could not come up with ideas. I would not call them solutions because they may not work. But, the point is that gun control is not advocated for to help reduce the deaths of white males, its argument is something totally different. Again, the left does not attempt to help white males. Before we go longer into a long drawn out conversation, look at how this started. I point out that white males have something that afflicts more than other groups, and I got this as a response.
"You poor thing!
How is it that you've determined that the privilege of being a straight white male is some sort of disadvantage in this country?"
Again, I'm making the comparison to make it seem like the Right is good, just that the Left and Right both care about their ingroup and not everyone.