One more advantage of knives over guns

One more advantage of knives over guns. https://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-crisis-so-bad-criminals-cannot-afford-bullets-2019-5

Venezuela's economic crisis is now so bad that criminals can't afford to buy bullets

Venezuelan criminals cannot afford to pay $1 per bullet when many of their mugging victims do not even carry cash or luxury items anymore.

Harde to run out of ammo for a knife. They don't bring the respect of a gun though. There are ups and downs for both means of committing crime.

You know things are bad when the criminals are rationing ammunition.