Shootings will go on

The article is misleading in that it only focuses on the Chinese knife attack that happened today in which no one was killed. This was a fortunate outcome because mass killings with knives have been an endemic problem in China in recent years. It usually is not reported in the US news, but the regular episodes of insane people going on murder sprees in China often cause surprisingly high death tolls given the use of knives.

The point being, the problem probably has more to do with a society in which very little is done to deal with violently insane people until they act out than the implements used in that acting out. Even in the US, the school killing with the largest death toll in the last century did not use guns.

Until the root causes are addressed, little will change.