Brazzil

....with an objective view of the sad reality....in Brazil !!!!!!

Should be published in all brazilians newspapers for reading....and hand delivered to Lula and his gang !!!!!!!

What's a few citizen's lives compared to the leftist ideology of Lula and the PT?

as the USA darkens it too will resemble brazil!! good bye whites the jews and their dark pawns/slaves are taking over!!

Don't forget that Cristaldo is a fool with a PhD. http://www.brazzil.com/content/view/9443/76/

What a fascist.

are u paid to say only bad things about my country???
why r u still in here???
give me a break!!!

All states in the U.S.that have concealed wepons laws,the murder rate has gone down

They lie like a rug. Check it out.

Janer Cristaldo RULES. As we´ve come to expect, anothet insightful, well articulated, and spot-on analysis of a Brasilian issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10...razil.html

No, you're wrong. Cristaldo is a fool. His articles are not "spot on." They're the silly ravings of a has been. Okay, he RULES THE DOMAIN OF HAS BEENS.

Silly ravings indeed. Nonesense!

I love the comment about the Americans overturning their government over a tea tax and the Brazilians will not speak out and revolt over all their insane taxes and beauracy. Futhermore, I still cannot get over the fact that it is called a democracy but people are forced to vote or they get fined....

Do you get confused by shiny spinning objects too?

· About 39,000 people in Brazil are killed by guns each year, or about four an hour.

· Unesco ranks Brazil second in deaths by guns, with 21.72 per 100,000 people a year. Venezuela proportionately has more, with 34.3 per 100,000, but Brazil has more in absolute numbers.

· More than one in 11 Brazilians has a gun - about 17m guns in a nation of 183 million.

· 72% of guns used in crimes in Rio de Janeiro state between 1999 and 2005 were registered to "law-abiding citizens" or to police or the armed forces and had been stolen by criminals.

· Gun-related deaths fell 8% in 2004 after a voluntary disarmament campaign.

· Police said 67% of guns used in rapes and 58% in murders were store-bought.

Sources: Unesco, Rio de Janeiro civil and state police, Rio de Janeiro state security secretariat, Institute of Religious Studies based in Rio de Janeiro.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/brazil/story/0,12462,1598147,00.html

The greatest beneficiaries of guns sales in Brazil are criminals. There is zero evidence that gun ownership stops crime, yet 72% of guns used in crimes in Rio de Janeiro state between 1999 and 2005 were registered to "law-abiding citizens" or to police or the armed forces and had been stolen by criminals; 67% of guns used in rapes and 58% in murders were store-bought. Wake up! Guns are not the answer Guns are part of the problem!

The police and the black market sell all the guns to the criminals in Rio, they do not come from law-abiding citizens.

The police and the black market sell all the guns to the criminals in Rio, they do not come from law-abiding citizens.

Brazil is a funny country. You are taxed to guarantee your medical care... and then you have to pay another private health insurance if you want in fact to guarantee your health. You pay taxes to assure public education... and then you have to pay for private education - Nos Estados Unidos está a mesma coisa, Janer.

I have to learn to spec proper english

The NRA is a good thing and should be respected as such

I thought the vote was a ridiculous charade. What another waste of money from a government that has fallen from the people's favour. If you talk to Brazilians on the street here they would tell you that it was all about violence, not guns. Brazilian society is tired of violence and they want a change. But this vote won't give it to them. What should be done is a little social engineering. Like the penchant for brushing your teeth at lunch time. I guess I wasn't here in Brazil for that one but obviously the message got out. Now EVERYONE brushes their teeth after eating at lunch. Just goes to show that 500 million dollars spent on a referendum could have been the seed money for a multi-year social engineering media blitz to change the current paradigm to a society where violence is never acceptable. If you want an example, take a look at Canada where the paradigm was shifted over 15 years until drinking and driving became a social no-no.

Why complain now? The violence came with the white man. Before the arrival of the white man, Brazil and the US were pristine peace loving paradises. Now he wants to blame the violence on black and brown people. But who brought it here in the first place?

The US is the most violent of all countries. Dropping nuclear bombs on inoccent women and children. Yet it is BLACK people supposedly creating all of the violence. True Neo-Nazi propaganda. It is the white race who is the creator of all of the world's violence in the past 600 years.

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I unfortunately agre with the statement that the white man has brought on the increase of violence.I say( unfortunately ) because I am a white man. To my children, I try to teach that violence gets you now where. But the finger is always needing to be pointed some where. It is man that cuases violence, and it is unity and hope that embraces peace. Big money and a rich mans dreams pushes the average and in a sense of being the normal into a corner. In America the rich manis both black and white on television. And the exploitatoion of what is like to have all that is what drives the unwealthy to desire what they may neaver get. But the fact of the matter riches and wealth are over rated if people would pust the same energy into life health and happiness what would the world be like then ? Who would be the hated? When you point your finger at a(white,brown,black,yelllow ) man in hate, you are pointing at a mirror. Then the blame belongs to the one with the finger sticking out. Me personally I would just like to live safe, your color friend, doesn't make a differance to me.

when you choose to point your finger at an entire race that is just pure racist statement not evenclose to an open minded statement you just dont understand that there are white people that are disgusted with history also 600 years is a long time which i am sure that (white man) has done plenty wrong but (wtf) im only 32 i havnt blamed you

You are an ignorant fool to say that white man has brought violence. Although there have been some of us who have done damage, to stigmatize an entire race of people from a few isolated incidents is insane. Skin color has no influence on anything including crime. If you commit a crime and happened to be black, it is not because you are black that you commited the crime. It was because you are an individual person and chose to commit it. Your blind hate and racism is the source of violence. And yes, we have dropped bombs on other countries, but with justified reason. I do not believe that killing is right, but if you weren't so ignorant than you would understand why we have done what we have done. For example, in the bombing of Japan, we were facing an unimmaginable number of casualties. It was either, end the war with the bombing of Hiroshima, or suffer the casualties that would result from a full fledged invasion of Japan. So by using bombs, less lives were lost than would have been lost if bombs were not used. So please, do us all a favor and shut the f**k up. And just so you know, im only 13 years old.