Johnny Bravo wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2005 19:27:11 +0200, Martin Holterman
<martin.holterman@wxs.nl> wrote:

I'll try this one more time: If a knife were just as dangerous as a
fire arm, or even more dangerous, while being something like 10 times
cheaper, why would anyone buy a fire arm?

Why don't you ask the military, they seem rather keen on knives (if
you'll pardon the pun) as well as firearms.

The right tool. for the right job.

That's true.
So linking back to how we got to this: a gun is suitable for some jobs,
a knife for others. So the absence of fire arms can cause some "jobs"
(i.e. crimes) to become impossible, or at least more difficult.
Causation.