That look you get when it is clear it works.
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Posted on 01/01/2019 2:19:53 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Now, Brazil is set to embark on an experiment that will determine what happens when you loosen gun restrictions in a country battling an overpowering wave of gun crime.
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who takes office Tuesday, adopted a signature finger-gun salute during his campaign. The ex-army captain has promised a dramatic reversal of the country’s 15-year-old gun legislation to make it easier for citizens to obtain firearms.
“All the hoodlums already have guns, it’s only the good guys who don’t!” Mr. Bolsonaro said in a radio interview earlier this year. He said Saturday that he plans to issue a decree allowing all Brazilians without criminal records to own firearms.
Supporters of the measure say arming law-abiding citizens might cause Brazil’s criminals to think twice about carrying out a crime like a carjacking or home break-in. Violence experts say simply adding more guns to the mix without tackling the root causes of crime will only make the murder rate climb faster.
Crime has soared as Brazil’s police forces, starved of resources during the country’s 2014-16 recession and plagued by corruption, have been fighting a losing war against some of the world’s most powerful drug gangs. Critics have also blamed the government for the lack of a national public security plan, calling for more investment in investigative policing and community policing.
Under a 2003 law, Brazilian civilian gun owners must be at least 25 years old, provide proof of a steady job and have no criminal history, among other requirements. The biggest stumbling block, critics complain, is that federal police have the final say over whether applicants really need a gun. Police frequently decide they don’t.
Proposed legislation would take away the police’s veto power, reduce the age required to buy guns to 21
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$35USD bounty on the head of every “hoodlum”.
17 of the top 50 most dangerous cities in the world are in Brazil.
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2018-3
“In 2017, Brazil had a murder rate of 29.2 per 100,000 population.[7]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Brazil
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For comparison, Chicago had a murder rate of 28.1/100K in 2016. Keeping an eye on this one.
Or more correctly, peak and then drop. Hopefully the surviving Brazilian bad guys won't caravan to our southern border.
I sure hope so, just as an example for the world including us. We know it WILL work and make a huge difference probably right away.
Yes, and you can be sure the MSM will promptly bury that story as soon as the crime stats start to plummet. Can’t have facts get the way of the narrative.
“Or more correctly, peak and then drop.”
That would be my guess. I’ve set up reminders to check this thread quarterly.
Go Bolsonaro!
Lol.. can this guy join a caravan? I am sure there is room for 1 more. 15 thousand and one.
Agreed... And it is going to get messy at first, which they WILL cover. But in the long run like you say, they will turn a blind eye to it and never mention it again.
It is hard for me to fathom that even as predictable the propaganda is, there are enough ignorant people out there who actually believe these deceptions.
It should be a total embarrassment to our educational standards as a nation.
“Hopefully the surviving Brazilian bad guys won’t caravan to our southern border.”
They would have to be pretty determined to get across the darien gap.
Lol.. can this guy join a caravan?
What I am expecting.
1) There will likely be a brief flurry of the stupidest of the armed criminals trying it on. Then armed criminal mortality will reach a slowly declining plateau.
2) There will be some big gang fights in the giant slums (called Favelas). Some 11.4 million Brazilians live in these slums. There are now about 600 favelas in Rio de Janeiro.
3) This means that the new president is going to have to start a comprehensive program to deal with this, *one way or another*.
That look you get when it is clear it works.
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Now is the time to buy stock in Taurus and Rossi.
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When it works, we will hear another word.
So I expect Soros and the left to start smuggling automatic weapons to the Brazilian gangs in order to ramp up the violence, to prevent any drop in gun violence which would be detrimental to the Narrative.
The only lasting way to reduce criminal violence, is by reducing the number of criminals loose in society. You can do that by putting them in prison, or by killing them.
Killing them is more permanent.
It’s worked for Switzerland. The E.U. is trying to kill it. We’ll see.
It seems an oppressed armed society can lead to civil war, unarmed oppressed society can lead to genocide.
Bold man, that Jair Bolsonaro.
Real name is Jair “Trump” Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro means “ballsy”. ;)
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