{"id":73845,"date":"2020-04-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73845"},"modified":"2020-04-15T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:03:10","slug":"more-guns-more-sun-less-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73845","title":{"rendered":"More Guns.  More Sun.  Less Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a little over a year ago that Brazil &#8211; against the caterwauling of the caterwauling class &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71429\">radically liberalized<\/a> its gun laws, which had essentically been Chicago-like since the 1940s.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The caterwaulers said liberalizing gun laws would result in Brazil &#8211; whose violent crime rate is about five times that of the US &#8211; getting, y&#8217;know, violent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been almost a year.&nbsp; What do you suppose happened?<\/p>\n<p>Do I even need to explain it?&nbsp; &nbsp;Viol<a href=\"https:\/\/gungoal.com\/blogs\/brazil-crime-rate-falls-with-the-rise-of-gun-rights\/\">ent crime is down in the vicinity of 22%<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Comparing changes between available months of 2019 and 2018 shows an average decrease of Total Violent Crime and Monthly Index at 22.25% and 23.04% respectively.<\/p><p>Since 2018 was already a low-crime year compared to 2015-2017, Jan \u2013 April 2019 violent crime number indicates that people are better off with the means to defend themselves. Brazil new gun policy is a step in the right direction.<\/p><p>Other than the loosening of gun restrictions, law enforcement taking harsher measures could also contributed to the lowering of violent crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not\u00a0<em>entirely\u00a0<\/em>the gun.\u00a0 Nobody said it would be; preserving order is one of government&#8217;s few legitimate jobs (if you&#8217;re a conservative), and Brazil&#8217;s corrupt post-socialist system has been notoriously bad at that for a long time.\u00a0 An armed society without some means of preserving order <em>might\u00a0<\/em>turn into the American frontier &#8211; or it might turn into South Central Los Angeles, depening on whose will to power gets satisfied.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, as predicted, it seems to be helping in Brazil.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a little over a year ago that Brazil &#8211; against the caterwauling of the caterwauling class &#8211; radically liberalized its gun laws, which had essentically been Chicago-like since the 1940s.&nbsp;&nbsp; The caterwaulers said liberalizing gun laws would result in Brazil &#8211; whose violent crime rate is about five times that of the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73867,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73845\/revisions\/73867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}