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Guns in Brazil

dimanche 24 février 2019 à 01:00

Bolsonaro just gave an order to allow Brazilians to own guns and keep them at home. Women are afraid their husbands will shoot them.

Right-wing supporters of Bolsonaro make the usual right-wing argument that guns will enable people to protect themselves. Experience shows that this doesn't work: rather, having a gun in your home puts you in more danger.

For protection against someone who lives in your house, who might have per own gun, your gun is almost useless. To use it for this, you'd need the experience and honed sharp thinking of Travis McGee or James Bond, both of whom are fictional characters. I don't know whether any real people really have that.