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Brazilians reject civilian disarmament.(INSIDE REPORT)(Brief Article)
Defying pressure from the socialist government of President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and a host of UN-aligned pressure groups, the Brazilian electorate overwhelmingly voted down a proposed ban on the sale of firearms.
Brazil, noted an AFP report on the anti-gun referendum, "has one of the world's highest murder rates.... More than 500,000 people were murdered in Brazil between 1979 and 2003, according to United Nations figures, and many tourists now think twice about a walk along Rio de Janeiro's famous Copacabana beach for fear of being held up at gunpoint.... About 36,000 Brazilians a year are killed by firearms--more than cancer or traffic accidents, the ...
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