More Guns Legally Reduce Crime in Brazil

“Life is in jeopardy after the Supreme Court found New York’s restrictive gun licensing regime unconstitutional last week,” Biden said. Governor Kathy Hochul warned: “This could put millions of New Yorkers at risk.” Brazil’s experience suggests the opposite.

In 2018, a year before Jair Bolsonaro became president, Brazil had the highest homicide rate of any developed country: 27.8 per 100,000 people, compared with 5 per 100,000 in the US. Bolsonaro’s solution: “Give the guns to good people. Let people have guns so they have a chance to defend themselves.”