Brazilian firearms and ammunition referendum, 2005
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On October 23, 2005, Brazil held a country-wide referendum on article 35 of the Disarmament Statute to determine whether to approve or disapprove the article, which states in full, "The sale of firearms and ammunition is prohibited in the entire national territory, except to those entities provided in article 6 of this Law." ("Art. 35. É proibida a comercialização de arma de fogo e munição em todo o território nacional, salvo para as entidades previstas no art. 6o desta Lei."[1]) The referendum failed by nearly ⅔ and that part of the statute was not enacted.
The referendum and its date had been provided by the Disarmament Statute itself (art. 35, §1o).[1] During the drafting and development of the law, it had been decided that article 35 should be submitted to a referendum because of the importance of its subject. On July 7, 2005, the Federal Senate of Brazil promulgated legislative decree 780, which authorized the referendum. Article 2 of its decree stipulated that the public consultation should employ the following question: "Should commerce in firearms and ammunition be prohibited in Brazil?" ("O comércio de armas de fogo e munição deve ser proibido no Brasil?"[2])
However, Brazilian Department of Justice (Ministério da Justiça), at the time it performs each individual's mandatory background check (what is made prior every gun acquisition, and every three years after it's acquired, whats allows gun confiscation), have been forbidding almost every citizens to buy guns[3] , based on the Executive Order # 5.123, of 07/01/2004 (Decreto n.º 5.123, de 1º de julho de 2004),[4] that allows Brazilian FBI (Polícia Federal) to analize the reasons that motivate a gun acquisition and the will of keeping an acquired gun, in which it's not considered a valid argument "self defense" because, according to them, there are allegedly sufficient and efficient public polices that are in charge of nationwide security, among other reasons of this kind of denial.[5]
Thus, disarmament is real in fact in Brazil,[6] as it's also real massive gun confiscations,[7] notwithstanding it's massive refusal by Brazilian people (at the referendum of 2005) and even though it is considered one of the real causes of the rise in 20% of gun usage rates in homicides in the country, in its nine years of existence (in 2003, people with guns killed 36.115 of the total 60.121 homicides, about 60%, while in 2012, 40.077 homicides of the total 50.108 were made buy the usage of a gun, about 80%).[8]
Results
| No: 59,109,265 (63.94%) | Yes: 33,333,045 (36.06%) | ||
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See also
Notes
- 1 2 "LEI No 10.826, DE 22 DE DEZEMBRO DE 2003.". Retrieved 2011-10-06.
- ↑ "Decreto Legislativo no 780, de 2005". Retrieved 2011-10-06.
- ↑ http://www.mvb.org.br/pf_desarme.php
- ↑ http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5123.htm
- ↑ https://jus.com.br/artigos/30201/a-ilegalidade-na-negativa-a-compra-de-arma-de-fogo
- ↑ http://veja.abril.com.br/noticia/brasil/o-estatuto-do-desarmamento-nunca-alcancou-seu-objetivo/
- ↑ http://www.migalhas.com.br/dePeso/16,MI40623,51045-Renovacao+do+registro+de+armas+de+fogo
- ↑ http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/brazil
References
- This article is based on material translated from the corresponding article in the Portuguese Wikipedia: pt:Referendo sobre a proibição da comercialização de armas de fogo e munições.
External links
- Information (in Portuguese)
- Resultado Oficial
- Instruções e Resoluções do TSE
- Tire suas dúvidas sobre o Estatuto do Desarmamento
- Referendo Sobre o Desarmamento
- Comunicação do Senado
- Pesquisa do Datafolha
- Lei que regulamenta a execução dos meios de soberania popular previstos no artigo 14 da Constituição Federal
- Opinions against the referendum (in Portuguese)
- PSTU - Vote Não! Pelo direito à autodefesa dos trabalhadores!
- Referendo da Fumaça, Revista Veja, 05/10/05
- Portal Nosso São Paulo - Diga "não" à Mentira e à Hipocrisia
- A Farsa do Desarmamento
- Charges
- Opinions in support of the referendum (in Portuguese)
- Especial Trip Desarmamento
- Pelo sim ao desarmamento - Comissão de Direitos Humanos e Minorias da Câmara dos Deputados - CDHM
- Sim ao desarmamento
- Site Desarme
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