In 2010 there was a man in China who stabbed 28 children in a kindergarten. This was followed by 8 other copycat attacks over the next year, people killing children with knives, hammers, a cleaver, an axe, or a box cutters. I agree that it's not a matter of guns per se, but it is ridiculously easy to get a gun in the U.S. and culture glorifies gun ownership and usage.

Further, if the man in Connecticut had a knife instead of an automatic weapon, many fewer families would be shattered right now.

I live in Norway, which has one of the lowest gun murder rates per capita. There are about 5 gun murders per year, and yes Norway is small (5 million people) but the rate in the USA is 2000 times higher with a population 60 times greater. Gun ownership in Norway is 31 guns per 100 people, compared to 88 guns per 100 people in the US.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this, but I am pessimistic that anything will change. It will take a big grassroots upheaval of the people demanding change in order to give politicians the backbone to do anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_%282010...