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Brazilians voted 64 percent to 36 percent in a referendum yesterday to reject a proposed ban on retail sales of guns and ammunition.
The balloting marks the first time a country put a gun- control measure to a popular vote, according to the human-rights group Amnesty International.
Opponents of the measure, including farmers and some lawmakers with police or military experience, said the ban would leave law-abiding citizens without firearms to defend themselves while stimulating a black market where criminals would get their guns.

The vote showed Brazilians “reaffirming their constitutional right of self-defense”

The Brazilian referendum was carefully crafted to serve as a test bed for similar efforts planned for other nations where citizens are allowed to own firearms. Gun control leaders in the United States hoped that a victory in Brazil would encourage Americans to give up their freedoms as well. However, Sunday’s trouncing of the Brazilian gun-grab referendum should shatter the gun control movement’s hopes for world-wide civilian disarmament.

“The gun control movement is talking, but nobody is listening,” said ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson. “I’m not at all surprised to see that the good people of Brazil have rejected the gun-controllers’ assertion that disarmed citizens are safer from marauding criminals than if they were armed. The gun control crowd tried the same argument in the days after 9-11, but the American people just shrugged off the concept of strength through weakness as being absolute lunacy. Whether it be Brazil, Los Angeles, or New Orleans, freedom-loving people understand the value of privately owned firearms.”

“I imagine Monday morning will be decision time in the boardrooms of all these gun control organizations,” continued Pearson. “After the passage of gun-maker immunity and after getting walloped in Brazil, the gun controllers must at least have an inkling that their efforts are little more than tilting at windmills at this point.”