Yes that is right anyone need to pay for medication our hospital bills here in Braszil.
But we want our guns back, because the far left take away our rights after the 2005 referedum where majority of population voted in favor to buy firearms

@Williamcristiano

You'll find a lot of folks on this page not sympathetic to your comments....

You say "the far left"...how do you define that? Many here are "left" leaning, liberals, and progressive who prefer we had better gun control and regulation

You must know we in America have dozens of deaths per day from firearms...and the "far right" works hard to keep guns in everyone's hands....so we continue to set records for suicides and accidental deaths, as well as violent deaths.

You said that your populace "voted in favor to buy firearms"...was that a "buyout" of guns owned privately? So you didn't have to sell your gun? I'm not clear on what you're saying.

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@Robecology deaths by guns in Brazil is almost 2 times higher than USA.

@Williamcristiano Point taken; but according to these statistics, gun possession is Brazil is 8.6 per 100,000; in the US it's 120 per 100,000.

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So you have twice the murder/homicides, whereas we have more suicides, and accidents. We have far more "mass-killiings" (terrorist acts, usually by American born youths) than you do.

So both our nations have bad gun habits.

My only argument with you is your claim that the "far left took away your rights" but then you said the "majority of population voted in favor to buy firearms"....I'm still not clear on that; was that a "buy-back". - or an offer to buy guns from the general population? So you "sold" your guns to the government...you didn't have to surrender them?

@Robecology when the disarmament statute came into force, they gave a period of 90 days for people to hand over the caliber of government-restricted weapons, they did not repurchase it, but offered only about 150 dollars for a rifle, so many of the people did not surrender the weapons, or sold them to the criminals, because the criminals offered more fair values to the arms than the government itself.
the government also tried to disarm the military police but without success.

@Williamcristiano That sounds typical.

All I can suggest is know your neighbors.

Be peace-loving.

I've known and met gun-nuts, gun-obsessed people.
People trying to sell me guns.
People I've sold my guns to.

Be careful.

@dan325 His English is challenged; his native tongue is probably Portuguese/Brazilian.

Excuse-me, but criminal people will not gives their weapons for police department, only honest civilian people respect the laws in everywhere in the wolrd

@Williamcristiano Countries where ordinary citizens are not allowed to own guns have a very much lower rate of gun deaths.

@CeliaVL it is not true, in my country Brazil is forbiden but gangsters don't respect the laws.
They use machine guns .50 like mexicans gangsters

@Williamcristiano I'm sorry. I didn't make myself clear - I meant countries where the rule of law is largely respected.

Yup. Think hi-cap magazines and high school shooting. That sort of things. Some old boys should find another hobby.