Fight crime, shoot back.
Posted on 05/23/2023 9:25:36 PM PDT by JohnRLott
Gun ownership increased sixfold under former Brazilian President Bolosonaro, homicides dropped 34%
A gun expert is asking academics to put their money where their mouths are and bet $1,000 on Brazil as a case study that stricter gun laws won't mean less crime.
No one has taken him up on the bet yet, but some have hit back by calling the challenge a "stunt" and saying they will put cash up if the terms meet their requirements.
Brazil took a hard turn away from gun ownership with a new left-wing presidential administration this year, sparking a debate on whether Brazil’s falling crime rate would increase or continue to fall as it did under former President Jair Bolsonaro.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn into office in January, and his first order of business was working to reverse the previous administration’s pro-gun policies, including a decree that ordered citizens to register their firearms with the Federal Police, limiting the maximum number of guns a person can own from six to three, and suspending new firearm registrations....
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The is the John Lott? This is an honor. Been a while.
1992-2016 violent crime in the US declined annually
1992-2016 record US gun and ammo sales annually
repeatedly they said the opposite was going to happen
2016 defund the police, Soros DA’s=now up to over 5000 excess bravo mikes homicided vs the expected continued decline.
Outstanding!!! Excellent idea, putting Brazil’s crime on everyone’s radar. Watching it steadily go up.
And Brazilllians will be posting the article all over.
Nice!
Fight crime, shoot back.
Great idea! It will be interesting to watch and see if those that disagree with gun ownership will admit the truth as crime starts going up.
The county in which I live, in a red state, has a large number of firearm owners. Our sheriff is pro-Second Amendment and encourages law abiding citizens to own guns and work with the LEO’s office in being that office’s partner in keeping crime down. We have a very low crime rate with only a few violent crimes, armed robberies, or murders in the decades I have lived here.
An armed society is indeed a polite society.
Thanks for all you do, John!
Lula has been a lifelong MARXIST. Gun confiscation and outlawing is high on his freedoms suppression list.
What did people expect? Castro did the same thing.
Thank you for posting. So, what kind of “conditions” on the bet conditions would these “elite academics” demand to create the outcome they desire?
Note: The former Brazilian president also opposed the international globalists’ false premises and propaganda on CAGW. Perhaps his greater “sin”
That’s a bingo! Having the will and fortitude to use a weapon is tremendously important.
Same as they do with other things they don’t like.. mani puts the Storting in their favor.
I was in a corporate hospital meeting that eyed they had to start a new program for mothers who lost their babies during pregnancy in 2022, because there was a substantial rise in miscarriages. However, this is never seen in data sets because our data is manipulated to hide the reality of abortion.
They are so desperate to achieve their goals they will put the most innocent at risk. Lucky for all the big pharma vax pushers they can just keep #Winning.
Nice to see you around again.
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Numbers don’t lie, politicians do. Thanks for your lifetimes work.
Require all new gun restrictions to be first tried in Chicago to see if they reduce violent crime?
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