https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JpKG8PODdg4 Tucker Carlson interviews Eduardo Bolsonaro, adviser to his father, President Jair Bolsonaro, about Brazil's gun policies on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' The numbers and discussion in the interview are clearly...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Wall Street Journal that questions the apocalyptic predictions by Biden and others over guns after the US Supreme Court decision on New York's concealed handgun law. . ‘Lives are on the line,” President Biden said after the Supreme...
Brazil DataDownload When Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro promised to ease gun regulations and let more people own guns the media and the “experts” they talked to thought it would lead to more homicides/murders. Well, it didn’t turn out that way. Things are still...
When Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro promised to ease gun regulations and let more people own guns the media and the "experts" they talked to thought it would lead to more homicides/murders. Well, it didn't turn out that way. Things are still early and other factors...
“The citizen deserves to have the means to defend himself, respecting the referendum of 2005, when he chose, at the polls, the right to self-defense.” From President Bolsonaro’s inaugural address, Tuesday, January 1, 2019. Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro just...
The attack at a public school in Suzano, Brazil on March 13th, 2019, resulted in eight deaths and 23 people wounded. Two former students committed the massacre, and they reportedly modeled their attack after the Columbine attack, the 20th anniversary of which will...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece on what Brazil's recent presidential will mean for people's safety around the world. Brazil’s strict gun control laws have failed. The country's annual homicide rate now stands at 31 per 100,000 people—almost six times higher than...
“The citizen deserves to have the means to defend himself, respecting the referendum of 2005, when he chose, at the polls, the right to self-defense.” From President Bolsonaro's inaugural address, Tuesday, January 1, 2019. In a Tweet, Brazil's president-elect made...
With the conservative candidate in the Brazilian presidential election pushing hard to "give guns to good people," the issue of gun control is front and center in the race. Rough translation of Dr. John Lott statement from the Portuguese in the Brazilian newspaper...
Brazil has the highest murder rate of any developed country, so it isn't surprising that people want to do something to protect themselves. "Right-wing" presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro won 46% of the vote in the first round election this past Sunday, massively...
John Lott was interviewed by Gabriel Brust with Portugues do Brasil about the move to liberalize their gun laws (November 2, 2015): With the advancement in the National Congress of the bill repealing the Disarmament Statute in force since 2003, making it less...
Literally only a few percent of Brazilians are currently legally able to own guns, but Brazil has had one of the highest murder rates in the world (they are 24th in the first figure in this post). From AFP about a draft law that could be voted on in November: Brazil,...