Brazil’s Private Gun Ownership Up, Murder Rate Down

AmmoLand ^ | July 24, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

One of Brazilian President Jair  Bolsonaro’s campaign promises was to reform the extremely burdensome restrictions of the Brazilian legal code on the ownership and use of firearms. AmmoLand related the drop in homicides as of early 2020 when the rate had dropped to under 20 per 100,000 population. According to the Wilson Center, a Progressive think tank, legal private ownership of firearms grew from about 1.3 million in 2018 to just short of 3 million in 2022.

“Experts” claim the increase in armed citizens has nothing to do with the drop in the homicide rate. From the Wilson Center:

At first glance, this seems to lend credence to far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro’s view on fighting crime. He advocated the indiscriminate use of firearms by the general population as a policy to curb violence. Criminals would “think twice” before robbing an “armed, law-abiding citizen,” he argued. Gun registrations increased by nearly 80 percent between 2019 and 2022, the duration of Mr. Bolsonaro’s term.

However, experts deny that the drop in homicides last year is linked to Mr. Bolsonaro’s pro-gun, tough-on-crime discourse.

The Wilson Center’s “80%” increase is difficult to decipher. In the think tank’s chart, the total number of legal, privately owned guns increased by about 127%, from 1.3 million to about 2.95 million. These numbers include private firearms owned by service members. If you exclude the firearms owned by service members, the numbers increase from about .65 million to 2.25 million, a 246% increase. The 80% increase only makes sense if you start with the permits in the first year of Bolsonaro’s term, after he had already issued his decree to start the rise in numbers.

Legal private ownership of firearms increased substantially during Bolsonaro’s four-year term, and homicide rates plummeted.

[marktwain]

The legal private ownership of firearms in Brazil increased by about 240%. The homicide rate dropped by about 30%.

[imabadboy99]

We know that the left is satanic because they lie and obfuscate constantly. This is just one more example.

John 8:44
New International Version
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"“Experts” claim the increase in armed citizens has nothing to do with the drop in the homicide rate"

Not nothing. Everything.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Allow the people to resist the criminal gangs who were controlling the poor neighborhoods, et viola!

Gangsters are the foot-soldiers of the left. It's them that we will have to suppress first, not the army or the police.

This phase of oppression is already playing out in our cities, aided and abetted by leftists in government, who know that gangs are cheap and easy. You don't have to pay them, they support themselves. And they're deniable if anybody accuses the police chief or even the FBI.

[sauropod]

News to pay attention to. Bkmk.

[rlmorel]

I heard that in Brazil, defending yourself or others against the commission of a crime, regardless of what happens to the perpetrator, frees you from any legal repercussions from the state or civil courts.

(I have have also heard that isn't the case formally, but apparently, people are not being charged for this, and crime is dropping.)

Check out this video from Brazil:
In Brazil, thieves are run over after robbing a group of people

This video shows people being robbed by two guys on a motorcycle, and a passerby in a vehicle seeing this happen openly, simply aims his car directly at the thieves, sending them flying gloriously into the air.

Yes. Gloriously. No sympathy. I was disappointed to see one of them lived and ran away, but I wonder how far he got, because one guy chasing them appeared to pull a gun out. No sympathy here if both of them died as a result of their violent criminal activity.

I wondered also if the person who ran them down had been a victim of just this kind of thing and it had been stewing in him. Either way, don't care. Good to see. The predictable outcry from Leftists that this is vigilante justice and that the police should be taking care of this is wholly expected, but that assumes the police aren't being taken deliberately out of the equation by Leftists who decry any intervention by police when it isn't their own person or property in peril.

[MtnClimber]

The population of Brazil is roughly 220 million. The legal ownership of 2.95 million guns is still far to low. A much higher ownership rate would give the gangs something to fear.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember quite a few years back when there was a plan to ban all handguns in Brazil. The citizens pled for help from...the NRA in the US on how to fight this, and the ban was defeated.

[marktwain]

Correct. The push for the ban was masterminded by Rebecca Peters, who had incredible success in pushing the Australian gun ban in 1996/97. She was/is being paid by George Soros.

Her Australian experience did not translate well to Brazil.

[leaning conservative]

That’s really interesting.