At least 8 people were killed in a school shooting in Brazil

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/americas/brazil-school-shooting/index.html

(CNN)At least eight people were killed Wednesday in a shooting at a school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to the country's military police.

Two armed men wearing hoods entered the State School Raul Brasil in the town of Suzano -- about 70 kilometers east of Sao Paulo -- and fired at students and staff, the Sao Paulo government said on its official Twitter account earlier Wednesday.

Is the general public allowed to own guns in Brazil?
How difficult is it to get a gun there?

[AncientGeezer]

1. Kind of strict....but all the laws they've passed failed...

63+k gun homicides in '17....I don't know if that includes suicides

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. Since Brazil has a population of about a third less than the US...

...that makes the rate per 100,000 much higher than here.

And also:

It is estimated that there are around 17 million firearms in Brazil, 9 million of which are unregistered. Some 39,000 people died in 2003 from gun-related injuries nationwide. In 2004, the number was 36,000. Brazil has the second largest arms industry in the Western Hemisphere. Approximately 80% of the weapons manufactured in Brazil are exported, mostly to neighboring countries; many of these weapons are then smuggled back into Brazil. Some firearms in Brazil come from police and military arsenals, having either been "stolen or sold by corrupt soldiers and officers."

Link from post #2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Brazil

[oneshooter]

2. Gun laws in Brazil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Brazil

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3. Laws against self-defense:

These measures saw mixed success. Initially, the crime rate dropped, but subsequently rose in later years. 2012 marked the highest rate of gun deaths in 35 years for Brazil, 8 years after a ban on carrying handguns in public went in to effect, and 2016 saw the worst ever death toll from homicide in Brazil, with 61,619 dead. The death toll rose again in 2017 to 63,880, a 3.7% rise from 2016.