The Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaroquestioned the restrictions on the sale of weapons determined by the judge Edson Fachinof the Federal Supreme Court, the magistrate appointed by Dilma Rousseff that in March 2021 annulled the sentences issued against the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by the federal justice of Paraná within the Lava Jato anti-corruption operation.
“Zero, I don’t agree on anything with Mr. (Edson) Fachin,” said Bolsonaro during an interview. Fachin issued precautionary measures against the release of the sale of firearms due to the risk of “political violence”less than a month from presidential electionon October 2.
“The issue of weapons. Political violence? What is that? Now they invented political violence“, challenged the Brazilian president. “All dictatorships were preceded by disarmament campaigns” of the population, Bolsonaro stressed, who since his arrival in government, in 2019, enacted decrees to make the carrying and purchase of weapons more flexible.
Your son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, had proposed through a series of messages on Twitter, the formation of groups of armed civilians. “Did you buy a legal gun? Do you go to a shooting club? So you he has to become a Bolsonaro volunteer. Ask your candidate for federal deputy for president’s stickers and pamphlets, distribute them,” wrote the deputy
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The call of Eduardo Bolsonaro was directed to the so-called CAC group (hunters, sports shooters and collectors), which according to data published by the newspaper Folha, reached million members last July. The growth of the CAC was 187% compared to 2018: at the end of July they had registered 1,006,725 weapons, compared to 350,683 in 2018.
“We want guns for good citizens. Do not forget that armed people will never be enslaved. There is a thief out there who dreams of disarming the people of him again, “he had pronounced Jair Bolsonaro in April during a speech.
For Edson Fachinin opposition, “the beginning of the electoral campaign exacerbates the risk of political violence”, and it “becomes extremely and exceptionally urgent the need to restrict access to weapons and ammunition“, wrote the magistrate of the Federal Supreme Court (the Supreme Court of Brazil).
According to the court, only “people who concretely demonstrate their effective need” can have weapons, one of the rules that Bolsonaro made more flexible by decree. Fachin justified having made the decision “in light of the recent and unfortunate episodes of political violence”, in a reference that the government read as a wink from the judge close to the PT to the Argentine case and the attack against Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
