Thanks for being so civil guys
, I know you could care-less about South America but we're growing smarter everyday, even though the government denies education to our population because they do not want smart people wandering around, thinking, creating, speaking, we are getting there, slowly.
Kissaki, you are from Norway, go commit suicide. Just kidding, just kidding!
When was the last time you had an authoritharian gov't again? Hmm during Hitler's invasion? All you ever suffered was from Social-Democracy, down here we had Leninism, Fascism and now Communism, our Democracy is young and immature, your country and your people exist for centuries, you are one of the best countries in the world on anything, safety, longevity, competition, freedom of press, happiness, richness, equality and anything else you can think of, your rich government invests in education, health and security, your cities are clean and your people have a high standard of living, the only problems in the life of a Norwegian is bad weather and boredom, should I start comparing with Brazil?
Just don't go to the other extreme, I don't have any weapons and I don't feel the need to own one at this moment, but I know many people do need and I know this must be a choice and not imposed from the state, by the way, the laws here are already so restricted nobody can own a 12 gauge shotgun, we're not asking for much, we just want our right to choose.
Sulikate I'm happy to know you and your family voted NO, we did our part to tell the government we don't want it to interfere even more in our lifes and we demand a national security project and serious investment in security! We sent them the message!
Sailor Steve you are absolutely correct, the people MUST have the right to choose if they want to buy a firearm or not, the rest is already heavily regulated and controlled, one of the main problems is the urban mentality, people forget Brazil is not only a country made of cities where people want to have a weapon at their homes, it is a frontier country that borders Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, there are many cases of banditism in the borders and many farmers also have to deal with wild-life, alligators, pumas, wolfs, etc.. Denying them a firearm would be a death sentence. And that's why the NO won, NO for government intervention, NO for the monopoly of firearms restricted to the Police, Army, a few classes (Judges, Prosecutors, Private Security body-guards and a few others) and criminals!
It is always good to remember Hitler disarmed the Jews before starting the holocaust, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and others took similar measures, perhaps the government wants to disarm the farmers and the citizens so their armed police or armed organizations financed by them can start grabbing land? So the criminals are free to move against the society leading to chaos where they can present themselves as our saviours and offer a magical solution which is giving them totalitarian powers? NO to all of that, we don't want to go buy guns, what we want is our constitutional rights preserved, and we want serious investment in security, health, education, infrastructure, etc. etc..