Posted on 05/18/2015 7:01:57 AM PDT by rktman
Over the last 15 years, Brazil has instituted more and more gun control, including gun registration and criminal and mental background checks for gun ownership. Today they have “restrictive” gun control, and one more thing—a 35-year high for gun deaths in the country.
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I was reading the commentary last year of an American IT guy who was offered a job and considered moving to Rio. The upscale neighborhood was a five-star place was part of the deal....but he noted that several guards roamed the gated community with shotguns. He asked questions and found out that crime was a big deal, and ended up turning down the job.
Isn't that the name of a book on gun control. I just can't remember the author's name.
“I was reading the commentary last year of an American IT guy who was offered a job and considered moving to Rio. The upscale neighborhood was a five-star place was part of the deal....but he noted that several guards roamed the gated community with shotguns. He asked questions and found out that crime was a big deal, and ended up turning down the job.”
Been there. Had armed guards outside my residence in Brazil, Argentina and Peru. If I went from my residence to my work place and back, with a stop for dinner, I was ok. But if I chose to deviate from that schedule, I was on my own.
Thankfully the assignment was very short.
John Lott
Isn't that the name of a book on gun control. I just can't remember the author's name.
More Guns, Less Crime. By John Lott
Damn you & thou fast fingers!
Clearly they need more gun control and restrictions to stop the violence.
Got ya by 5 seconds!
What’s wrong with this picture?
Not only that. One of my neighbors worked on fast and the furious (FAST FIVE) in Brazil and he told me that never in his life did he ever have so much armed security in a foreign location shoot. Apparently word was that the local gangs had threatened the studio for extortion if they want to shoot scenes “safely”.
It’s not the guns, it’s the number of underclass.
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