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The only reason that our knife murder rate is only 2X as high is because guns are the better option for murder. If guns were banned then our knife murder rate would skyrocket. My point is that American society in general is violent regardless of what weapons are available. Until we address that, everything else is a bandaid. We need to address poverty, income inequality, quality of education in poor neighborhoods, ending the war on drugs, and strengthening workers rights if we actually want significant change. Deciding what caliber of bullet we can shoot each other with is missing the point entirely. We need to stop people wanting to murder each other regardless of weapon availability.
Here we go with the “well since it wouldn’t have prevented this particular mass shooting, we can’t do anything about anything” >

"More gun laws this time will definitely stop it now" - California >

I'm sure the US having murder rate 6x higher than western Europe has nothing to do with there being more guns than people. Nope, no correlation at all. Gun control activists act like guns were designed to kill people or something. >

Do you think that guns are why America has higher knife murder rates than most first world countries as well? Even though guns aren't as available in those countries they murder each other with knives less than Americans do as well. It's obviously far more than just guns that are the problem. >

You don't think that having a 22X higher firearm murder rate than EU has something to do with higher murder rates overall? 
US knife murder rate is indeed higher than EU, but only ~2X. The vast majority of the difference is murder rate is difference in firearm murder rate