Brazilians Want Their Gun Rights Restored

By Robert Farago

“Almost 60,000 people were murdered in Brazil in 2014, most with guns,” npr.org reports. “While some Latin American countries have higher per capita murder rates, in absolute numbers, Brazil is the deadliest place in the world outside Syria. Brazilians are far more likely to be shot to death than Americans, a more populous country where there are about 8,000 to 9,000 gun homicides each year. Still, a group of Brazilian congressmen wants to make guns easier to obtain, modeling their proposal on U.S. legislation.” Still? What’s Portuguese for oy vey? Anyway . . .

Congressman Edson Moreira wants to make it easier to get guns . . .

“Brazil doesn’t have a gun problem. It has a problem of illegal guns in the hands of criminals, especially drug traffickers,” he says.

His group is trying to relax the ability of the police to decide who gets a weapon. “The idea is to return to the public the right to own a gun or not,” he says.

His argument is one familiar to Americans: If the “bad guys” have guns, the “good guys” should be allowed to have them as well to protect themselves.

Indeed, Moreira says …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns