This is extremely sickening. Seems to have killed even more of his family before this too. Mother was the kindergarten teacher, most of the kids who are dead were in kindergarten.
I don't think any gun control would stop these kind of things... they'll just find a different weapon.
My thoughts and prayers are with the victims.
Do you really think he could have knifed 27 people to death? I guess he could have used a crossbow, but that's about it...
Today, someone in China stabbed 22 elementary school kids. And other cases (also in China) had people killing over 20 kids in knife attacks before