Gun-toting boys from Brazil

[jkdyoyo]

Hopefully this isn't a dupe. I've always wanted to visit Brazil.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7043223.ece

A boy steps boldly into the night traffic and waves a gun to bring the cars to a halt, clearing a path for a motorcycle which screeches into the intersection. Riding pillion is another boy, brandishing a machinegun.

Later two teenagers, also riding pillion on motorbikes, flash their guns at other motorists; nearby, a boy can be seen taking aim with a rifle equipped with a telescopic sight. Other youths wander the street smoking crack.

 

[Gadsden]

Good to see all that gun control Brazil enacted is working out for them.

 

[IPSC_DRL]

Looks like Sao Paulo when I was there a couple years ago.....

 

[Scrivener]

Add "Gun Control" to the long list of other stellar successes Brazil achieved, such as:

1. Control of inflation;

2. Environmental Protection; and

3. Free participation if the political process.

 

[terraformer]

It should be interesting in 2 years when they host the olympics... For the world cup they can get away with stuff, this won't fly if it gets on the news.

 

[gene]

Looks like a target rich environment

 

[cekim]

It's so nice to see the younger generation learning political skills... They are so often disengaged and disenfranchised...

 

[terraformer]

It's so nice to see the younger generation learning political skills... They are so often disengaged and disenfranchised...

Better yet, those are probably M16s our tax dollars subsidized...

 

[BillyBoy]

Just watched City of God. If the movie is an accurate representation of the slums of Brazil........Holy crap I am thankful as hell I live the life I live.

 

[Mike S]

I call airsoft.

 

[EC1]

Kidnapping and robbery on the highways have become very popular over the past ten to fifteen years in Brasil especially in and around Rio and Sao Paulo.

 

[flhri03]

And they obviously never took the rider safety course...

 

[terraformer]

I call airsoft.

I call USGI M16s that were sold surplus to the brazilian government (or one of the other banana republics down there we prop up).

 

[Scrivener]

Don't have to got THAT far - check out the kidnappings in Mexico City, where even the traffic cops have M-16s.

For that matter, you don't need to leave the country. The Mexican crime culture has oozed North in Arizona, bringing the kidnapping gangs with it.

 

[Tim94gt]

Just watched City of God. If the movie is an accurate representation of the slums of Brazil........Holy crap I am thankful as hell I live the life I live.

Good flick. It is based on a true story, taking place in the 60's. I believe it is an accurate representation of the slums at that time. Not too sure about present time though.

 

[cekim]

The Mexican crime culture has oozed North in Arizona, bringing the kidnapping gangs with it.

Wait, I thought socialism was a morally superior form of government? It is more "decent," or so I am told by the leftists. How can this be?