Posted on 12/23/2022 3:51:36 PM PST by rellimpank
BALNEÁRIO CAMBORIÚ, Brazil — Take away the açaí smoothies and the skewers of barbecued Brazilian meat and the four-day Texas ExpoTiro here could be a gun show anywhere in the United States. Firearms dealers from all over the world have rented booths to market Glock pistols and AR-15s, and gun rights advocates are offering lectures on how to confront violent urban crime.
“This is a triumph of liberty!” said retired military police chief Marcelo Venera, the executive director of the two-year-old expo, the largest gun show in the country and the first open to civilians. “We are here to show that we are good people and there is nothing wrong with loving guns!”
The gun owners of Brazil are proclaiming victory these days. Private gun ownership, once tightly restricted in Latin America’s largest country, has grown at least sixfold in the four years since President Jair Bolsonaro began relaxing the rules.
What’s more, gun enthusiasts say, it’s working: The homicide rate in Brazil — one of the world’s most violent countries — has fallen more than 27 percent since 2017.
“Everyone said there would be more homicides when Bolsonaro loosened the restrictions,” said Paulo da Silva, 25, attending the gun show with friends. “But it turned out to be the opposite!”
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A complex theory can always be created to explain a simple outcome.
Have a good friend in Brazil.
Prayers up on steroids.
Libs hate occams razor. Destroys all their socialist woke theories.
Fact: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 21.
Same phenomenon in Brazil. Gun ownership by the peasants stops crimes without a shot being fired.
There's no way to know. But it likely happens far more than the Leftists would ever admit.
For those who remember the past. There was an attempt to ban gun ownership in Brazil a few years back. the gun owners, then contacted the NRA in the US about how to fight this. With the NRA’s help that law was defeated.
An armed society is a polite society.
- Heinlein
Years ago in Washington, DC, I was living in a little apartment above a dry cleaning establishment on 14th Street. There was a late knock on the door, and I answered it with a cocked Molina Hafdasa prominently showing in my hand. The big guy in front was very polite and apologetic for getting the wrong address. On the way down the steps, I heard him complaining, “What were you pushing me in the back for when the man had a great big gun in my face?” I moved out of the apartment two weeks later. The neighborhood had greatly changed since I gone to a high school two decades or so earlier nearby. Thank God, I didn’t have to kill anybody.
I read “Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy” about thirty years ago.
He had the same exact experience on his first night in his DC apartment and was suitably armed with the same result.
I didn’t know about Liddy. I worked for a Federal agency about 3-4 years abstracting scientific articles in Chinese, Japanese and Korean to saved up enough money, and with the GI Bill, to climb on my ketch at Buzzard Point Boat Yard with my then girlfriend and sail/motor to Miami where I got a PhD in biology.
That’s cool. If I had the ability I’d buy a ketch and stock it up for a couple year voyage and spend the Great Reset out of harm’s way.
The I had the hull built on Smith Island in the Chesapeake by an old man in his 80-90s for a $1,000 during the early sixties. The ketch was a little over 30ft long at deck (plus a pretty Chesapeake long bowsprit and gold-leaf name boards). I deck it in Washington and built the cabins on weekend, bought the sails in Annapolis for a few hundred, and rigged it. I wish I still had it. It was a thing of beauty.
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