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The crime situation was particularly bad in Brazil when Jair Bolsonaro entered office. Brazil had one of the highest homicide rates in the developed world, with 27.8 homicides per 100,000 people. (In the United States, the same figure is 5 per 100,000 people.) Around 70 per cent of homicides were committed with firearms.
The Bolsonaro government quickly moved to make no less than 32 changes to Brazilian gun laws, including simplifying the background screening procedure, legalising the purchase of more powerful guns, reducing licensing costs, deregulating gun carry and increasing the legal maximum of purchasable ammunition one hundredfold (!). As a result, gun ownership boomed in Brazil. The number of licensed, legally purchased guns more than doubled after Bolsonaro’s reforms.
Results? The homicide rate has fallen by 34 per cent, to 18.5 homicides per 100,000 people in the past three years.
“The decline of community in the modern world has as its inevitable religious consequence the creation of masses of helpless, bewildered individuals who are unable to find solace in Christianity regarded merely as creed.”
Robert Nisbet
American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism. Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory.
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This story out of India: Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha was born in 2022. At 30 months he started learning chess. By age three he had defeated five ranking members of the International Chess Federation, earning him his own official ranking. What’s next? Recognition as a grand master as he continues learn about how chess works, and how victory is achieved against some of the most active minds of his generation.
