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(AP Photo/Silvia izquierdo) Remember when Joe Biden told Americans that they didn’t need a modern sporting rifle for self-defense, and they should just get a double-barreled shotgun instead? Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has issued his own advice for Brazilians concerned about violent crime, and he’s taking a position diametrically opposed to Biden’s own stance. Everyone in Brazil should buy a rifle, the country’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has said. He also said on Friday that those who oppose guns should stop nagging gun buyers. The president has already relaxed gun laws to allow more Brazilians to own firearms for self-defence, citing an increase in homicides. Brazil has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the world, and one of the highest homicide rates on the planet to go along with the restrictions on the ability to keep and bear arms. Until Bolsonaro was elected in 2018, there was little chance that the average resident of Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo would ever be granted a license to own a firearm, but in 2019 the president enacted some reforms that made gun ownership more of a possibility than it had been in the past. Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that there’s been a 65% increase in legal gun owners since the decree took effect. During Mr. Bolsonaro’s first year in office, the government issued more than 200,000 licenses to gun owners. The federal police, which issues licenses for self-defense, approved 54,300 permits in 2019, a 98 percent increase from the previous year. The army, which grants permits to hunters and collectors, issued more than 147,800 new licenses in 2019, a 68 percent increase. Of course, given that it’s the Times that we’re talking about, you can imagine what they think about the number of new gun owners in the country. “In the long run, this could be disastrous,” said Natália Pollachi, the projects coordinator for Sou da Paz Institute, a public policy group that supports stringent gun laws. … The flood of new guns in Brazilian homes stands to make domestic violence more lethal, […]
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