Brazil goes shall issue!!!!

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According to multiple news outlets, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a temporary decree making it easier for Brazilians to buy guns, delivering on a campaign promise to overturn strict regulations in a country suffering from a record wave of murders:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...un-laws-in-murder-ridden-brazil-idUSKCN1P91Q6

Candidate Bolsonaro (a former paratrooper) made gun rights a central campaign promise in a country that led the world in murders. Great job Brazil!
 
Nice.
It is too bad he also has said the rain forest will no longer stand in the way of progress and plans record level removal of the largest forest in the world which produces over 20% of all oxygen on Earth, and has more animal diversity than just about anyplace else.
So may not be a lot of outdoor wilderness to take that gun, but still an improvement.
 
largest forest in the world which produces over 20% of all oxygen on Earth,"

It's off-topic, but I highly doubt that the 20% figure is accurate. Elementary logic argues against that percentage. Everything is exaggerated these days.
 
Nice.
It is too bad he also has said the rain forest will no longer stand in the way of progress and plans record level removal of the largest forest in the world which produces over 20% of all oxygen on Earth, and has more animal diversity than just about anyplace else.
So may not be a lot of outdoor wilderness to take that gun, but still an improvement.

Let us not forget that election of Jair Trump is big geopolitical win for US interests in the region. This will keep Chinese influence in check and we will have new partner to bombard people of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba about wonders and benefits of having Democratic Government.
 
largest forest in the world which produces over 20% of all oxygen on Earth,"

It's off-topic, but I highly doubt that the 20% figure is accurate. Elementary logic argues against that percentage. Everything is exaggerated these days.

Definitely off topic, as was the original post, but according to the top result when I quickly used my search engine... Check out this link.

https://earthsky.org/earth/how-much-do-oceans-add-to-worlds-oxygen

They say that somewhere between 50 and 85 percent of the world's oxygen production is from oceanic life.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankton-breathe-freely/

These folks say about 70%. I'm less inclined to believe them absolutely because at least the writer of the first link admits that it is a tough thing to estimate. They are right in the middle of the other number anyway. I don't really accept either source's opinions, but those are the sources I've got on the oxygen production. After all, I couldn't spend more than 45 seconds looking, that would be absurd!

If we go with the lowest estimate of 50%, there is no way that the entire country of Brazil has the space to produce 40% of the remaining oxygen worldwide. If you want to save the oxygen levels of the world... Get a fish tank and don't clean it.

Good on Brazil (on the shall-issue part, and we'll have to see how the rain forest and sniper issues go)! I've got friends down there, and actually one of them is a gun guy who had previously lamented to me about their gun laws. It's sad about their murder rate, but at least their government is "doing something" about violence and realizing that they cannot take care of everyone!
 
largest forest in the world which produces over 20% of all oxygen on Earth,"

It's off-topic, but I highly doubt that the 20% figure is accurate. Elementary logic argues against that percentage. Everything is exaggerated these days.

Yep. The Amazonian ecosystem is basically running a closed loop... No oxygen coming out of it, it is all taken by the decomposition (oxydation) of the organic matter on the forest floor.

No “lung of the world” there. But it’s a nice marketing catchphrase... :D
 
Isn't there somebody who believes in gun ownership but doesn't want to destroy gays, indigenous, or otherwise marginalized people? Maybe they could behave like they want a planet for their great-great-great grand kids t hunt on?

??? I missed the part where someone on this thread wanted to destroy all these things.....

As for me, I do believe in gun ownership, and I do strongly believe in fact-checking, and being veeeeery wary of figures trumpeted around by people with a “cause”. In this particular instance, the fallacy of the Amazonian forest being one of the major sources of the world’s oxygen, when it actually uses all the oxygen it produces, or close to.

This statement of fact has absolutely no bearing on the importance of that vast ecosystem, its biodiversity, its influence on the rain patterns and general weather in a large part of Southern America, and other trifles.

But bulldung is bulldung, and I call it when I see it.

As for the Amazonian capuchin monkeys’ sex life and preferences, my interest in them is slightly less than the square root of zero. I don’t want to know what they are doing in their bedrooms, and I don’t want them in my bedroom... :D
 
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Somebody has taken to believing media reports...
Fact checking in this day and age has become something akin to finding what you want to find because thats what you believe in the first place. When I see a video of a man calling gay people garbage and otherwise demeaning them, I don't need to factcheck that ****. When I see reports of a man who wishes to consume important natural resources regardless of the indigenous people who have lived there since before the Spaniards and Portugese, I don't need to fact that ****. When I hear of a leader who wants to drill, baby, drill, I don't need to hear anything more.
When a man insinuates that his alternative facts are just that, he can go suck an egg.
 
Fact checking in this day and age has become something akin to finding what you want to find because thats what you believe in the first place.

Well, you have certainly proved your point. It would appear that TDS is impacting your ability, or will, to differentiate between the Orange Abomination and the newly elected President of the Brazil. I am confident that your Portuguese is not good enough to have heard what you seem to think you have. Cheerio.
 
Well, you have certainly proved your point. It would appear that TDS is impacting your ability, or will, to differentiate between the Orange Abomination and the newly elected President of the Brazil. I am confident that your Portuguese is not good enough to have heard what you seem to think you have. Cheerio.
My Portugese is rusty but I can't say the same for my Brazilian friends and family.
Stop trolling where you can't fish.
Cheerio, indeed
 
I don't think it is a good idea for gun rights to be associated with autocratic demagogues. It would be much much better if gun rights were associated with more democratic regimes, or just middle-of-the-road technocrats. As it is, it makes gun ownership seem like an extension of his other policies, many of which are not particularly admirable.

And folks certainly need to learn some biology around here. The importance of the Amazon is as a carbon sink. Cutting it down is definitely bad for the whole world.
 
I don't think it is a good idea for gun rights to be associated with autocratic demagogues. It would be much much better if gun rights were associated with more democratic regimes, or just middle-of-the-road technocrats. As it is, it makes gun ownership seem like an extension of his other policies, many of which are not particularly admirable.

Bolsinaro is only an "autocratic demagogue" in the minds and statements of the intensely corrupt leftist establishment who were ousted and are threatened by the election of a man who supports law and order in a society rife with crime and nearly paralyzed by corruption that benefits the leftist establishment. The claims made about his intent to wipe out the Amazon and destroy indigenous people are likewise the outlandish claims of the corrupt Brazilian Left trying to rally the globalists against him. The Brazilian media is riddled with pawns of the Leftist Establishment and it would appear they have been somewhat successful in deceiving some people with their lies, and messages of hatred and division. Take cheer, Bolsinaro is just a guy standing up for the average Jao in a country that has been brought to its knees by a pseudo-socialist kleptocracy.
 
Bolsinaro is only an "autocratic demagogue" in the minds and statements of the intensely corrupt leftist establishment who were ousted and are threatened by the election of a man who supports law and order in a society rife with crime and nearly paralyzed by corruption that benefits the leftist establishment. The claims made about his intent to wipe out the Amazon and destroy indigenous people are likewise the outlandish claims of the corrupt Brazilian Left trying to rally the globalists against him. The Brazilian media is riddled with pawns of the Leftist Establishment and it would appear they have been somewhat successful in deceiving some people with their lies, and messages of hatred and division. Take cheer, Bolsinaro is just a guy standing up for the average Jao in a country that has been brought to its knees by a pseudo-socialist kleptocracy.

Rant away. He is on record opposing equal salaries for women, and beating gay children to make them straight. His intentions on indigenous land rights and the Amazon is also a matter of record. And I am not sure that we can expect him to be the one to fight corruption - as I recollect his wife received some unusual promotions and bonuses working under him. Corruption is not unique to the left in Brazil.
 
It's actually you that's ranting. I was just explaining that you were wrong and who you had been duped by.
 
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