Brazilian Voters Strongly Reject Gun Ban

Reuters ^ | 24 Oct 2005 00:31:51 GMT | Terry Wade and Todd Benson

[El Gato]

This sounds oddly familiar.

At least we don't have Columbian drug lords and Communist Venezuelans right on our border. Nor Maoist Shining Path guerrillas either.

[BigTom85]

Ive said it once on FR and ill say it again, the govt will never have my guns.. I will never register them. They can all kiss my american, gun toting, SUV driving, good ole boy ass!

'From my cold dead hands!!!'

[foobeca]

I lived in Brazil for 2 years as a missionary. The problem is that there aren't enough guns in Brazil. Normal people usually do not own a gun because they can't afford them. The "Civil" police carry .22, and .38 pistols. If you shoot someone with a .22 or .38 it's really gonna hurt and tick them off.

The "military" police usually carry 9mm pistols and sometimes have some sort of "assualt" rifle.

The police are always outgunned and outnumbered by the criminals, drug dealers, and thugs who all have AK-47's and Glocks which are illegal for a civilian to own.

[lrb111]

"IANSA’s work has been supported by funders including the Governments of UK, Belgium, Sweden and Norway, as well as the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Compton Foundation, Ploughshares Fund, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Institute, Samuel Rubin Foundation and Christian Aid"

Gee, some heavy sponsors of PBS broadcasting in the US. Go figure.

[Dead Corpse]

Molon Labe.

I was worried about this. Maybe there is some sanity left in the world after all...

[uglybiker]

So just how many is a Brazilian?

This is a bra-zillion.

[lentulusgracchus]

IANSA was behind this gun grab, sponsors listed below.

What do you bet? Rebuffed in Brazil, IANSA won't take it lying down. They'll immediately go for an easier win in another country, to turn the momentum around, then boom up the win in the MSM if they get it.

I agree with the idea that IANSA is actually stalking the United States and our Second Amendment. They're waging political war against the American idea.

[CommandoFrank]

Yes, you're probably right but I'll bet we'll never see America disarmed.

"Over my dead body...."

[Rytwyng]

How ironic it would be that someday these nutcakes would be in a position whereas their first thought would be "Damn, wish I had a gun..."

Handguns are like lawyers -- everyone claims to hate 'em, until they suddenly need one.

[The Old Hoosier]

From the AP article:

That law, coupled with a government-sponsored gun buyback program, has reduced deaths from firearms by about 8 percent this year, the Health Ministry said.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

[monday]

"That is down from 39,000 in 2003, a drop pro-ban groups attribute to a government-sponsored gun buy-back program. In contract, the United States, with 296 million people to Brazil's 186 million, has about 30,000 gun deaths per year."

The difference is due to demographics. Young people commit more crime. Brazil has a much lower age demographic than the US. If they were the same, there wouldn't be such a big difference. the drop isn't due to the gun buy-back program.

[marktwain]

The United Nations ranks Brazil second behind only Venezuela in per capita gun deaths, with 22 for every 100,000 people. In absolute terms it leads the world, with more than 36,000 shot and killed last year, government figures show.

Yet we are repeatedly told that our homicides are high because we have don't have draconian legal restrictions on guns.

Both of these societies have far greater legal restrictions on guns than we do, and they have far larger homicide rates, yet they are never mentioned when the MSM talks gun control in the U.S.