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You don't get it

You're the one who doesn't get it. Guns don't cause our high knife murder rates. You're completely missing the point. Keep pushing the least effective method of reducing our murder rate instead of the root causes of violent crime though, I'm sure it won't politically backfire like it always does to make people shoot each other with 9mm instead of rifles. Unless you're going to ban all guns entirely it's pointless. I'd be okay with that but it's never going to happen any time soon if at all.  
Just making all drugs legal and regulated with taxes from it going to addiction treatment would cut our gun murder rate by 2000 a year for example. That's 10% of all murders gone with a sweep of a pen and way more than would be stopped by changing what guns we shoot each other with.
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 >

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. >

All of these things are legitimate problems. But so is 22X the firearm murder rate of EU. 
You don't get it, the guns are the reason murder rate is insanely high. The US has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world.
Many countries have restricted gun ownership and seen an immediate fall in murder rate. It's a direct correlation with a lot of science and data backing it up.
A 6 year old can't point a knife at someone and kill them. Being in a car, behind a door, or simply running away all protect you from knives but not guns. And you can't go on a "mass knifing" the way you can with a gun that has 30 round magazine. 
You are absolutely right that guns are used instead of knives because they're better weapons. That's the entire reason US murder rate is so high. Knives aren't nearly as deadly with the same intent.
If you replaced every shooting with a knife attack the murder rate would still drop significantly. And realistically that won't happen because many people capable of shooting a gun couldn't use a knife.