I just heard about this story on the news:
14 Hurt in Knife Attack At Train Station in JapanIn searching for the story, though I found this, older story:
Frenzied schoolyard knife attack shocks Japan
- Friday, 8 June , 2001 00:00:00
Reporter: Mark Simkin
MARK COLVIN: The names of Dunblane in Scotland and Columbine High in the United States are joined in infamy today by a new name - Ikeda, near Osaka in Japan.
It was there today that a mentally disturbed man murdered eight school children aged between six and eight. It happened at an elementary school, and during the frenzied attack the man stabbed at least 26 children and three teachers.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s310420.htm
Now that's very interesting.
Firstly, those seem like the kind of casualties one sees from a mass shooting. Could it be that guns are not the only terrible, awful weapons that can be used to inflict mass murder?
Secondly, The New York Times actually seems to get it. Or at least for that first paragraph. They acknowledged that a knife attack was on a level with an attack with guns. So, banning guns won't protect us from wacked-out crazies.