So intent no longer matters?
We have no idea if he intended to attack him with the knife or not. Are you saying that every time someone brandishes a weapon (or in this case, attempts to brandish it) their intent is to attack someone with it? What sort of insane nonsense is this? If that's the case then we're going to be sending a lot of gun owners to prison. How fun!
The OP says it was a knife attack. Since no one was attacked with a knife, it was not a knife attack. This is common sense for people not blinded by partisanship.
And no one was killed on that Republican baseball practice field either! ROFLMAO.
lolwut. The equivalent to this would be if, instead of shooting someone at the Republican baseball practice field the guy who shot Steve Scalise pulled out a gun and then didn't shoot anyone with it. I'm quite sure the difference between those two things is not lost on Steve Scalise even if it's lost on you, haha.