It's both typical and disingenuous to name an attack after the instrument rather than the agent that wields it. Truck attacks, drone attacks, knife attacks - o

It's both typical and disingenuous to name an attack after the instrument rather than the agent that wields it. Truck attacks, drone attacks, knife attacks - one might be forgiven for thinking these objects have developed minds of their own. Or perhaps the insinuation is that most humans themselves are mere instruments of the cultures and institutions they're embedded in.