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| Tucker: Brazil's Answer to Crime ‐ Loosen Gun Restrictions (video) |
| 2022-07-08 |
| [Fox via Guns America] We covered this story last week for GunsAmerica readers, but it’s good to see Fox News’ Tucker Carlson also spreading the word as to what happened after Brazil made it easier for law-abiding citizens to keep firearms for personal defense. Crime rates went down — not up. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Specifically, as Dr. John Lott who conducted the original research observed in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, the homicide rate fell 34% after President Jair Bolsonaro made firearms permits easier and cheaper to obtain. As friend to a wonderful large Brazilian family whose male family members are "Militar" they are fortunate to live on a gated military community in the Amazon area. Other family members live in Southern Brazil in the Balneário Camboriú area in secure residential highrises away from the favelas that are dangerous. Still, however, Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed with a knife, when guns were harder to obtain by law abiding Brazilians. |
| Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 2022-07-08 16:45 |