Although it is not written into their constitution, the voting Brasilian has demnostrated that he is willing to deal with the violence of society, but cannot afford to surrender his true means of defense against an oppressive government. With my wife being from Sao Paulo and so many of her family and friends still living there, I was following this referendum closely. The second amendment of the constitution of the United States of America was not written so that Americans would retain the ability to hunt game or for sport; it was included as an amendment so that the people of the United States could defend themselves and overthrow an oppressive and tyrannical government like the one from which they had just fled.
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." (Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights.)

"The great object is that every man be armed . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun." (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution.)

"The advantage of being armed . . . the Americans possess over the people of all other nations . . . Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several Kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, in his Federalist Paper No. 46.)

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." (Second Amendment to the Constitution.)

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Only one in eleven Brazilians owns a firearm. Amonst the criminal element, I'm sure it is more like 10 of 11.

Were the government honest it would admit it is too corrupt, cowardly and politically correct to deal with the criminals. It would issue an inexpensive 38 special Taurus revolver to every honest citizen.

Within a month, most criminals would be dead or hiding under their mothers' beds.

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...Brazil has the highest crime rate....after Venezuela !
...gun deaths double in a decade or so...in Brazil !
...50 % of youths deaths aged between 15 and 24 years....are from violent crimes !
....your own police is killing thousands of innocents....yearly !!!!!
....your prison population doubled in the last 8 years !!!
.... your violent deaths rate is double the USA rate....despite guns are also legal there !!!!!
....as per one of your government agencies...in an article tha appeared 2 or 3 months ago...in this same site said :

in Brazil there has been more gun deaths in the last decade.....than in all international wars....during the same decade !!!!!!

This is a true tragedy..... !!!!!!

As one forum member said...a criminal will always be able to buy or steal guns.....wether legalized or not !!!!

SHAME to your politicians and various governments you had for the last decade !!!!!

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