This is a very minuscule sample of the contradictions of the Leftist ideology:
American leftists are in favor of preventing voluntary student praying in schools, but at the same time they demand freedom of religious services to the terrorists kept in the Guantanamo base.
Brazilian leftists today wear the clothes of nationalism, promoting paranoid alarms against a supposed foreign domination, but in the anniversary of 500 years of Brazil, they said it would have been better that the Portuguese had not settled and created Brazil off of the land.
Leftists scream against the tobacco industry but at the same time they want drug liberalization.
While American leftists complain that economic globalization is causing them to lose their jobs to the Third World workers, the Latin American leftists complain that globalization is bad for the workers.
Leftists say that they are humanists, but in a rally of Jews against terror in the Middle East that took place at the San Francisco university, leftists organized a counter-protest and yelled that "Hitler had not finished the job".
The left is against gun owners, but in Latin America, their MST (Brazilian landless movement) and FARC (Colombian drug guerrillas) do carry weapons and, during Brazil's military dictatorship, the leftist guerrillas taught their knowledge to the common criminals in the penitentiary of Ilha Grande, which resulted in today's violence of the PCC (a vast crime organization in Brazil).
The radical environmentalism of the left depicts human beings as a "blight" that harms the planet and they say it would be better if the humans were extinct. At the same time, the left alleges that it defends the same ones they call "blight" with a discourse supposedly in favor of the poor.
Leftists use demagoguery and flattery on the poor, but when a poor person is about to be born, their solution is to kill him/her through abortion.
They are against oil drilling the USA at the same time they don't say absolutely anything against oil drilling just outside the coast of Florida by the Chinese with the consent of the government of the left's favorite prison-island: Cuba. And the leftists do not say anything against oil drilling in other countries, where there are absolutely no concern for the environment.
They are against the so called bourgeois morality (codename for Christian) and favor the sexual liberation, but the sexual liberation, promoted by leftists, was the main cause for women being treated as sexual objects.
Brazilian leftists proposed "ethics in politics" to overthrow president Collor in the 90s, using a theme that was typical of the old middle class Right (it was on that platform that Janio Quadros was elected in the 60s) and it was despised back then by the leftists who used to call it "petty bourgeois moralism".
They allege they defend the freedom of expression against censorship, but when someone expresses ideas contrary to theirs, the leftists try to censor in most despicable ways.
They scream against the Brazilian military dictatorship (mid 60s to early 80s) and the violations of human rights, but at the same time they defend the longest dictatorship of Latin America (Castro) and completely ignore the human rights of the Cubans.
Leftists ignore terrorism and defend Palestinians at the same time they say that they defend homosexuals. But among the Palestinians, gays are persecuted and murdered and have to flee to Israel, the only place in the Middle East where they can live in peace.
The leftists say that they defend women against machismo and preach the liberalization of abortion, but in the communist China, abortion is liberalized and the main target of abortion are girls because Chinese families prefer to have boys.
They say they are against the rich, but the majority of the leftists is in the middle class and upwards.
Leftists have defended Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein. Castro was exposed in the Forbes magazine as the owner of at least $110 million dollars, that is, 10% of Cuba's GDP. Yasser Arafat had more than $300 million dollars, on top of the profits from a casino and a company that bottled soft drinks. Saddam had a minimum of $2 billion dollars before Iraq was liberated.
The socialists consider the state as the ideal agent to realize equality, making all properties belong to the state, which concedes the citizens a very limited control over properties. The communists desire the end of private property so there would be equality (or so they say) but they also preach the end of the state. These are contradictory. The end of private property can only be achieved through the monopoly of the power of coercion and whoever monopolizes the coercion becomes the state de facto.
Showing posts with label guns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guns. Show all posts
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Gun control laws in Brazil = nightmare
This is what Leonardo Arruda, director of the National Association of Gun Owners and Gunstore Owners (it is a sort of Brazilian NRA):
All pistols and revolvers must be registered.
A citizen is forbidden to have a gun with ammunition better than .380 (short 9mm) for pistols.
A citizen is forbidden to have rifles and carabines that use any ammunition other than the one allowed for pistols/revolvers.
A citizen is forbidden to have more than 2 pistols/revolvers, 2 rifles and 2 shotguns (only sport shooters and collectors registered in the Army can have more than this).
A citizen is forbidden to buy more than a gun per year.
Only sport shooters belonging to a shooting association/club can restock his ammunition, which can only be bought through the association/club.
If a citizen is caught with an unlicensed gun, it does not matter whether it is locked in a box, he can be jailed for 2 years (4 years if it is a pistol).
The license for transport of guns must be obtained in a police department and it takes a week.
The concealed gun license is very hard to obtain.
The taxes over the gun commerce in Brazil are one of the highest in the world: 81%.
The average wait time for registering a gun is 30 days. In Rio de Janeiro, it is 3 months.
All these controls have created a huge black market. Brazil is one of the fewest places in the world where an illegal gun is cheaper than in the stores: 1/3 of the price for revolvers.
Drug lords have absolutely no problem in obtaining weapons such as AR15, M16, SIG 551, HKG3, AK47, and even tracer bullets (forbidden to the honest citizens).
If anyone still believes in the rigid gun control for honest citizens, Brazil is one of the worst examples: according to an study by the American CDC, Brazil is the second highest in the world ranking of deaths by fire weapons.
Now, take a look at these testimonies from FrugalSquirrel users:
"I just read where the Brazilian people rejected a nationwide referendum to outlaw firearms. It seems that the people know that to give up their weapons is bad news.
What can you tell me about Brazil, especially Rio.
Thanks.
Don’t be fooled by that. It sure looks like a pro gun victory, but the truth is that Brasil has some of the worst gun laws around. Almost everything is banned , except for 22 and other odd ball rounds. Anything equal or bigger to 9mm diameter is banned, so forget about 9mm 38, etc. Only .22 semi autos are legal. It truly is a terrible place to live in. Criminals have no problem obtaining Imbel FALs and big bore guns, but civilians have it bad. You can’t carry or shoot the guns you have, except in shooting ranges, and the laws concerning self defense wont favor you much if you use guns to defend yourself.
Terrible place, with terrible laws.
The only thing they won was the keep having guns at all, which the gov. wanted to ban completely.
It’s a bad place, and Rio is swarming with crime. The natural sights are beautiful, places such as beaches and the hotels are supposed to be high quality, but I would go there.
I have some friends that used to vacation in Brasil all the time, until one day a neighbor complained about the music and they spent almost a week in jail. Now they don’t think that Brasil is that great any more.
Some think Brasil is great, then again those same folks also think Cuba is some sort of paradise…"
"I lived in/around Rio for a few months, and spend over a year in the surrounding areas. I can paint a mostly unpleasant picture. I personally knew two people who were shot and killed (one by police), I saw virtually no private ownership of firearms. Three more people I knew were shot but pulled through. The people I met generally put 'law enforcement' about on par with drug lords, and the former LEO I befriended agreed... I generally kept a low profile and I was only mugged once during my stay. This was all pre-2001...
I love the place, and many of the people. I had many good times in my stay there and met many quality people. But the bottom line is that it is the most violent and lawless place I have ever spent time. The people are generally rather politically blind and believe most anything coming from 'o jornal' (the news).
Anyway, that's my experience."
Now read this:
Brazil murder rate similar to war zone, data shows
55,000 Brazilians dying of homicide per year. Is it any wonder?
Brazil has ~ 190 million people, the highly strict gun control laws and 55 thousand murders per year.
And this:
Brazil launches anti-gun appeal
And yet they say any minuscule reduction in crime is thanks to their gun control initiatives. Disgusting.
As comparison, USA has ~ 300 million, infinitely better gun laws and 30 thousand homicides per year. Although they are not countries with continental dimensions and population such as USA and Brazil, Canada and Swiss have more legal weapons per capita than USA and yet an even lesser number of homicides.
Swiss is a country that even Machiavelli mentioned in his book The Prince (written in the 1500s) as a highly armed country. This is enough to ask whether this has to do with this country not being involved in any war (especially the I and II World Wars) and having the smallest rates of deaths by fire weapons and crimes.
Now back to Brazil: there are places in which the power of the state is weaker (such as in the rural areas of the Northeast region) and where police is insignificant - the police department doesn't even have a vehicle and has to do their diligence by taxi cabs - and where everyone breaks the gun control laws and has their unlicensed guns (some get their first gun at 11 years old).
Nobody shoots at anyone and people try to be very polite to each other (maybe because they bet that the other person is armed so it is wise to avoid getting them angered as much as possible), some of the civilians shoot better than people who belong to shooting associations.
There was a lady who argued for more gun controls because she "could not even cuss other people while driving, since the other drivers could be armed". Now this is their best reason to have more gun control... to be allowed to call other people names and get away with it... seriously!
Stupid laws such as gun controls - and there are not only stupid gun control laws but stupid laws for everything else in Brazil - are what people are used to live with and they have been brought up in an environment where they are encouraged to break the law here and there in order to keep their sanity, to keep their businesses, and, in some cases, to survive. Example: in Rio, people run red lights at night when they can - they fear stopping and take the chance of being assaulted and having their car taken.
Now, I am not saying that most illegal aliens in the US are Brazilians - they are not - or even that most illegal aliens take pleasure in breaking the law - they don't - but you can get the idea that in these other countries the situation is not unlike what happens in Brazil.
My theory is that this is what makes illegal aliens more prone to disrespect laws - they have not been brought up in an environment where there are laws that make sense and where there is this thing called rule of law, they ended up having a somewhat hazy view of the law: "it is to be obeyed only nominally in most of the cases, but should be bent and it should be ok to ignore it in brief moments in order to get going with your business of living".
Well, this can make anyone tired of the complaining. So, to end this post on a higher note, please watch this uplifting video:
All pistols and revolvers must be registered.
A citizen is forbidden to have a gun with ammunition better than .380 (short 9mm) for pistols.
A citizen is forbidden to have rifles and carabines that use any ammunition other than the one allowed for pistols/revolvers.
A citizen is forbidden to have more than 2 pistols/revolvers, 2 rifles and 2 shotguns (only sport shooters and collectors registered in the Army can have more than this).
A citizen is forbidden to buy more than a gun per year.
Only sport shooters belonging to a shooting association/club can restock his ammunition, which can only be bought through the association/club.
If a citizen is caught with an unlicensed gun, it does not matter whether it is locked in a box, he can be jailed for 2 years (4 years if it is a pistol).
The license for transport of guns must be obtained in a police department and it takes a week.
The concealed gun license is very hard to obtain.
The taxes over the gun commerce in Brazil are one of the highest in the world: 81%.
The average wait time for registering a gun is 30 days. In Rio de Janeiro, it is 3 months.
All these controls have created a huge black market. Brazil is one of the fewest places in the world where an illegal gun is cheaper than in the stores: 1/3 of the price for revolvers.
Drug lords have absolutely no problem in obtaining weapons such as AR15, M16, SIG 551, HKG3, AK47, and even tracer bullets (forbidden to the honest citizens).
If anyone still believes in the rigid gun control for honest citizens, Brazil is one of the worst examples: according to an study by the American CDC, Brazil is the second highest in the world ranking of deaths by fire weapons.
Now, take a look at these testimonies from FrugalSquirrel users:
"I just read where the Brazilian people rejected a nationwide referendum to outlaw firearms. It seems that the people know that to give up their weapons is bad news.
What can you tell me about Brazil, especially Rio.
Thanks.
Don’t be fooled by that. It sure looks like a pro gun victory, but the truth is that Brasil has some of the worst gun laws around. Almost everything is banned , except for 22 and other odd ball rounds. Anything equal or bigger to 9mm diameter is banned, so forget about 9mm 38, etc. Only .22 semi autos are legal. It truly is a terrible place to live in. Criminals have no problem obtaining Imbel FALs and big bore guns, but civilians have it bad. You can’t carry or shoot the guns you have, except in shooting ranges, and the laws concerning self defense wont favor you much if you use guns to defend yourself.
Terrible place, with terrible laws.
The only thing they won was the keep having guns at all, which the gov. wanted to ban completely.
It’s a bad place, and Rio is swarming with crime. The natural sights are beautiful, places such as beaches and the hotels are supposed to be high quality, but I would go there.
I have some friends that used to vacation in Brasil all the time, until one day a neighbor complained about the music and they spent almost a week in jail. Now they don’t think that Brasil is that great any more.
Some think Brasil is great, then again those same folks also think Cuba is some sort of paradise…"
"I lived in/around Rio for a few months, and spend over a year in the surrounding areas. I can paint a mostly unpleasant picture. I personally knew two people who were shot and killed (one by police), I saw virtually no private ownership of firearms. Three more people I knew were shot but pulled through. The people I met generally put 'law enforcement' about on par with drug lords, and the former LEO I befriended agreed... I generally kept a low profile and I was only mugged once during my stay. This was all pre-2001...
I love the place, and many of the people. I had many good times in my stay there and met many quality people. But the bottom line is that it is the most violent and lawless place I have ever spent time. The people are generally rather politically blind and believe most anything coming from 'o jornal' (the news).
Anyway, that's my experience."
Now read this:
Brazil murder rate similar to war zone, data shows
55,000 Brazilians dying of homicide per year. Is it any wonder?
Brazil has ~ 190 million people, the highly strict gun control laws and 55 thousand murders per year.
And this:
Brazil launches anti-gun appeal
And yet they say any minuscule reduction in crime is thanks to their gun control initiatives. Disgusting.
As comparison, USA has ~ 300 million, infinitely better gun laws and 30 thousand homicides per year. Although they are not countries with continental dimensions and population such as USA and Brazil, Canada and Swiss have more legal weapons per capita than USA and yet an even lesser number of homicides.
Swiss is a country that even Machiavelli mentioned in his book The Prince (written in the 1500s) as a highly armed country. This is enough to ask whether this has to do with this country not being involved in any war (especially the I and II World Wars) and having the smallest rates of deaths by fire weapons and crimes.
Now back to Brazil: there are places in which the power of the state is weaker (such as in the rural areas of the Northeast region) and where police is insignificant - the police department doesn't even have a vehicle and has to do their diligence by taxi cabs - and where everyone breaks the gun control laws and has their unlicensed guns (some get their first gun at 11 years old).
Nobody shoots at anyone and people try to be very polite to each other (maybe because they bet that the other person is armed so it is wise to avoid getting them angered as much as possible), some of the civilians shoot better than people who belong to shooting associations.
There was a lady who argued for more gun controls because she "could not even cuss other people while driving, since the other drivers could be armed". Now this is their best reason to have more gun control... to be allowed to call other people names and get away with it... seriously!
Stupid laws such as gun controls - and there are not only stupid gun control laws but stupid laws for everything else in Brazil - are what people are used to live with and they have been brought up in an environment where they are encouraged to break the law here and there in order to keep their sanity, to keep their businesses, and, in some cases, to survive. Example: in Rio, people run red lights at night when they can - they fear stopping and take the chance of being assaulted and having their car taken.
Now, I am not saying that most illegal aliens in the US are Brazilians - they are not - or even that most illegal aliens take pleasure in breaking the law - they don't - but you can get the idea that in these other countries the situation is not unlike what happens in Brazil.
My theory is that this is what makes illegal aliens more prone to disrespect laws - they have not been brought up in an environment where there are laws that make sense and where there is this thing called rule of law, they ended up having a somewhat hazy view of the law: "it is to be obeyed only nominally in most of the cases, but should be bent and it should be ok to ignore it in brief moments in order to get going with your business of living".
Well, this can make anyone tired of the complaining. So, to end this post on a higher note, please watch this uplifting video:
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