Brazil's police force weapons

[SteveInKA]

Some pretty cool rifles in this vid.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fc2_1174076641

[pklin1297]

Scary to see how well armed that kid at the end of the video is...

[Can'thavenuthingood]

Yes, the kid at the end is well armed and I'd expect quite dangerous.

A friend of mine just got back from 3 weeks in Brasil.

He said you literally have to be off the streets and inside by dark or you have serious thug problems. As in they will take what you have and the 'they' are just kids. The police chase and shoot first, don't get in the way. If you're out among them at night the police regard you as criminal also.

Armed guards in a bank with no cash on hand.

Brasilians were aghast at the way he talks about defending yourself against the hoodlums. The populace has guns but are not allowed to use them. That one should not do anything to interfere with the thugs is a mindset.

He is quite happy to be home in America.

Vick

[Teletiger7]

That clip is from a documentary that was in the DVD for that Brasilian film City of God. That whole film is about the rise of youth gangs in Brasilian slums. Anyways, much like in the US they fund their weapons collection from drug trafficking. Both the criminals and the Police in Brasil are much less restrained in their tactics and weaponry. They pretty much have firefights in the middle of the city on a regular basis. Kind of sad for the average citizen who gets caught in the crossfire.

[hkfooey]

Just amazing... are we happy that we don't live in a country like that, or the other way round?

[SteveInKA]

Just amazing... are we happy that we don't live in a country like that, or the other way round?

I'm happy to be living in America.....but i think some parts of America are almost as bad as the ghettos of Brazil. I'm just glad that my family and I aren't exposed to it.

[VeryCoolCat]

Is owning guns illegal in brazil?

[Crazed_SS]

I'm happy to be living in America.....but i think some parts of America are almost as bad as the ghettos of Brazil. I'm just glad that my family and I aren't exposed to it.

Nowhere in America is as bad as Brazil's favelas. Not even close. I remember watching "City of God" with my girl in Tijuana and thinking to myself, "Wow, Brazil is nuts.. Im glad Im here in the relative safety of Mexico"

[Travis]

I'm not sure if they can still freely buy guns. In know in the early 2000s there was no/little gun control and they had one of the highest firearms related deaths per thousand in the world.

A solid arguement that arming a society doesn't mean crime will be suppressed.

[Crazed_SS]

I'm not sure if they can still freely buy guns. In know in the early 2000s there was no/little gun control and they had one of the highest firearms related deaths per thousand in the world.

A solid arguement that arming a society doesn't mean crime will be suppressed.

An armed society with no rule of law would quickly devolve into tribal combat. That's what you have in the poorest parts of Brazil.

[SteveInKA]

Nowhere in America is as bad as Brazil's favelas. Not even close. I remember watching "City of God" with my girl in Tijuana and thinking to myself, "Wow, Brazil is nuts.. Im glad Im here in the relative safety of Mexico"

Maybe, maybe not. Think about certain parts of Watts, or "The Jungle" in los angeles. The murder rate in those cities is pretty high. I once read a statistic saying that "the jungle" in los angeles had a higher death rate than US soldiers in Afghanistan. Perhaps not as high a rate as the Brazilian ghettos but high none the less.

[Travis]

An armed society with no rule of law would quickly devolve into tribal combat. That's what you have in the poorest parts of Brazil.

Exactly my point. Many people are quick to claim an armed society would have less crime. In reality, there are far too many other factors that impact crime rates.