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Brazil Embraces Pro-Gun Stance
The Wall Street Journal Weekend ^ | March 16, 2019 | Samantha Pearson, Luciana Magalhaes and Paulo Trevisani

Posted on 03/17/2019 10:46:13 AM PDT by Steve Schulin

... as Brazil reels from one of its worst-ever school shootings, the response from President Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing administration and his supporters this week has been the opposite [oh how UK, Australia, Canada and Germany responded to their own school massacres over recent decades]: What Brazil needs, they say, is more guns... “...imagine if a decent person had been armed at that school. They could have stopped the attack from ending in the bloody way it did,” said Rogerio Mendonca, deputy leader of the governing bloc in the lower house of Congress.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brazil; guns; schools
Glad to see we who think an armed society is a polite society aren’t alone in the world.
1 posted on 03/17/2019 10:46:13 AM PDT by Steve Schulin
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I imagine Taurus Arms is one big reason for this.


2 posted on 03/17/2019 10:49:09 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
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They’ve already “embraced a pro-gun stance” in the favelas.


3 posted on 03/17/2019 10:49:53 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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imagine if a decent person had been armed at that school. They could have stopped the attack from ending in the bloody way it did,” said Rogerio Mendonca, deputy leader of the governing bloc in the lower house of Congress.

Finally, someone is making sense. If I were a teacher I would keep a very hidden, but easily accessible, gun with me and tell no one.

4 posted on 03/17/2019 10:52:02 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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Hmmm. Better bone up on our Portuguese huh?


5 posted on 03/17/2019 11:14:19 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Trump/Bolsanaro 2020!!!!


6 posted on 03/17/2019 11:37:44 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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Wish our UK Commonwealth brothers and sisters would get a clue.


7 posted on 03/17/2019 12:01:06 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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I don’t know the laws about owning a gun in Brazil, but it will be more than sad if it’s easier to get a gun there than in a country that has the right in ITS CONSTITUTION!!!


8 posted on 03/17/2019 12:05:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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One of the most beautiful languages spoken.


9 posted on 03/17/2019 12:19:13 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Thankfully at least Brazil gets it! Ask yourselves why progressives are willing to sacrifice and create future victims and I think you’ll agree the end game is total disarmament of the general public and control of the many by the few.


10 posted on 03/17/2019 1:10:29 PM PDT by Boomer One ( ToUsesn)
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