Randy Paul reports that Brazilian authorities are considering a national handgun prohibition. Gun violence in Brazil is already pervasive, but lower crime rate countries which enacted similar bans have seen disastrous results. Britain and Australia, for example, have seen surges in violent crime immediately following gun prohibitions.
Perhaps Brazil's crime rate is so high it can't get any worse. Too bad the gun ban will be a social experiment measured with victim's lives, because if past experience is a guide many innocent people will pay that ultimate price.
Posted by Walter at January 23, 2004 10:20 PM