Originally Posted By: Mithus
every month in Brazil we have a case of some children dying or killing because weapons of their parents in their home or that they go to the school with a gun. Last month a kid 10 years old, shooted her teacher then killed himself.

In urban areas, I think there is no reason to have a gun, rural and remote areas you would have the right to protect yourself.

I keep wondering, here in Brazil you have to take school and tests for about 1 month to get a driver licence..

but to buy a weapon just go to a shop and register the weapon, any retarded can do that and kill people.. so why not to require people to be tested and take a course and some psychic test to have the right to have a weapon at home.


You know in Israel in some schools the older siblings carry a gun slung over their shoulder to go to school. Do you hear of any Israeli school massacres because some kid goes off? NO, you don't. Because they have to worry about getting shot or blown up by some extremist.

If you're a parent and have guns, you have to teach your kids the proper way to handle a weapon. My dad was strict as hell with me, I started shooting higher caliber weapons when I was 10. One time we were shooting and my dad was watching my cousin take his shot. I was holding the .22 caliber rifle and found a bullet in my pocket. So I pulled up and shot after my cousin took his shot. My dad came UN-GLUED on me, I didn't get to shoot a gun again for a year because I didn't wait for my dad to watch me shoot the gun.

Everyone should have a right to protect themselves... ever hear the term "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight?" I'm not sure what kind of gun laws Brazil has, but here we have a 2nd amendment right to be able to protect ourselves. We also have over FIFTEEN THOUSAND guns laws. We don't need to ban guns or add more laws. We need our legal system to use the laws on the books, rarely they do. Because if many of these laws were used to their full affect, it would take care of many of the shootings we have here. But in saying that, criminals are criminals. They will find a way to get a gun, whether the law says they can have one or not.