Where are all the demands for axe control? Is the axe innocent, where the gun is guilty? No, of course not. They are both inanimate objects unable to act on their own.
The axe did not get up, walk out the door and kill these children anymore than the gun used in Nashville did. It is not the tool that commits murders, it is the evil and hatred in the human heart and there is no explaining why human beings choose to do such horrible things.
In the Brazil murders as much or more damage was done with an axe than was done in Nashville with 3 guns. The human being behind the axe killed 4 small children and injured 3 more for an even greater total.
Is Brazil guilty of this crime in the way that people say America is? I don't consider either country guilty. Only the individual is guilty. I'm sure there are many people in Brazil who own an axe and have never killed anyone with it.
It hurts the heart of a normal person to even consider such a crime. But the truth is that for all the blaming of guns, axes, knives, hammers, rocks or whatever tool is used, the crimes are hatched in the hearts of the human being who commits them.