Reply #11: Brazil [View All]

[enid602]

Unfortunately, Brazil´s right to bear arms is also specifically guaranteed in its constitution, and they have a very well-financed and effective, NRA-style lobbying agency, as well as a lively local arms manufacturing industry. Their urban homicide rate would make we Americans blush. The police CANNOT enter the favelhas; it is understood that they will be immediately shot buy snipers if they attempt to do so. The municipality has been building high concrete ´transportation walls´(like those seen on the side of freeways in Los Angeles and other cities) around the perimeters of the favelhas.