The tragedy of the school of Rio, where 12 children were shot dead for 17 days, has led the Government to launch a major national campaign, from May 6, for citizens to voluntarily hand over weapons. This was announced today by the Ministry of Justice, which seeks to allocate a place in every city for citizens to deposit their firearms legally or illegally obtained.
The Government intends to give all possible facilities for its delivery, so it has determined that can be delivered not only in police stations but also in churches, at the headquarters of NGOs and even the Order of Lawyers Brasil (OAB). In all these places, even inside the churches, should be a police officer who received the gun.
Faced with criticism that many times the weapons surrendered by civilians end up on the black market, like the drug, this time the Government has decided that these weapons are destroyed before the citizen at the time of delivery, but not explained how will be carried out such destruction.
Nor has it been decided yet how the government will compensate citizens for the weapons handed in, the price will vary depending on the type and number of weapons surrendered. The measure is being considered controversial, even within the political class and the project of calling a new referendum launched by President of the Senate, Jose Sarney, in October to prohibit the legal trade in weapons to civilians.
A referendum on the issue was already defeated by 64% of the population in 2005. Has been to politicians who, driven by the thrill of Rio's tragedy, even suggested that the police could search the houses to collect illegal weapons acquired, a hypothesis that was rejected as contrary to the Constitution, which protects the privacy of homes, where you can only enter with a warrant.
The criticism of the campaign to oppose the campaign to disarm the population claim that the problem lies elsewhere: the ineffectiveness of the police in fighting crime against the international arms market and the corruption of police and army to end in many cases selling their own weapons to drug traffickers.
"Disarming the population will be the best gift for the bandits," say the opponents of the disarmament. However, he has made an impression, for example, this weekend, without going any further, only in the city of Salvador de Bahia held 20 murders with firearms. Brazil is today one of the Latin American countries with the highest number of homicides: 50,000 annually, an average of 25 per hundred thousand inhabitants.
Except in Sao Paulo, which has succeeded for the first time this month to lower this figure to less than 10, so that has left the index, regarded internationally as an epidemic. 
The Government intends to give all possible facilities for its delivery, so it has determined that can be delivered not only in police stations but also in churches, at the headquarters of NGOs and even the Order of Lawyers Brasil (OAB). In all these places, even inside the churches, should be a police officer who received the gun.
Faced with criticism that many times the weapons surrendered by civilians end up on the black market, like the drug, this time the Government has decided that these weapons are destroyed before the citizen at the time of delivery, but not explained how will be carried out such destruction.
Nor has it been decided yet how the government will compensate citizens for the weapons handed in, the price will vary depending on the type and number of weapons surrendered. The measure is being considered controversial, even within the political class and the project of calling a new referendum launched by President of the Senate, Jose Sarney, in October to prohibit the legal trade in weapons to civilians.
A referendum on the issue was already defeated by 64% of the population in 2005. Has been to politicians who, driven by the thrill of Rio's tragedy, even suggested that the police could search the houses to collect illegal weapons acquired, a hypothesis that was rejected as contrary to the Constitution, which protects the privacy of homes, where you can only enter with a warrant.
The criticism of the campaign to oppose the campaign to disarm the population claim that the problem lies elsewhere: the ineffectiveness of the police in fighting crime against the international arms market and the corruption of police and army to end in many cases selling their own weapons to drug traffickers.
"Disarming the population will be the best gift for the bandits," say the opponents of the disarmament. However, he has made an impression, for example, this weekend, without going any further, only in the city of Salvador de Bahia held 20 murders with firearms. Brazil is today one of the Latin American countries with the highest number of homicides: 50,000 annually, an average of 25 per hundred thousand inhabitants.
Except in Sao Paulo, which has succeeded for the first time this month to lower this figure to less than 10, so that has left the index, regarded internationally as an epidemic.
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