Monday, October 24, 2005

Brazilians vote for freedom

As many in the English speaking world are more than ready to surrender their basic Common Law freedoms; people from a non-Common Law country, vote for the freedom and rights of the individual.
In a country where one person is killed with a gun every 15 minutes, surely the public would vote in favour of an outright ban on gun sales?
Wrong. By a resounding 64% to 36%, Brazilians decided to keep the gun shops open. The result was more decisive than any poll had predicted.
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For the foreseeable future, it is unlikely that any government will feel able to revisit the guns issue - such was the deafening volume of the "No" vote.
Brazil is proud of its recently-restored democracy. And rightly or wrongly, the Brazilian people have spoken.
Well done Brazil.

PS. I let that BBC bias at the end sneak in just so you could giggle with me.

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