Talk:2005 Brazilian firearms and ammunition referendum

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I translated this article from Portuguese (see pt:Referendo sobre a proibição da comercialização de armas de fogo e munições) but it could use work on many levels, including style, clarity, explaining cultural and political references, etc. So I put a cleanup tag in from the outset. Schoen 09:44, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Karmafist seems to have stopped translating his version of the page (since November). It's sad that he got so far and it just got deleted, but this is a full translation and includes everything from there. If anyone has anything to add or something that was from the 2005 article taht they feel should be included, please add it here. I just wonder what the best title would be. To be honest, Karmafist's seemed more to the point, though this article is a full translation and has right history so I'm not doing any moving yet. Avraham 22:15, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

By the way, if anyone wants to see the history of the old article, you can access it: HERE Avraham

Great work on the translation, Schoen. Avraham is probably right about the title; something like 2005 Brazil arms sales referendum would be more in keeping with our existing referendum articles. I'll try to help with style issues, but I'm afraid I don't know much about Brazilian politics.--Pharos 15:02, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Major cleanup
I've just removed a great amount of unsourced information from the article. It's been almost exactly an year since I tagged this article with many parametes (I even forgot I did that) but nothing has been done from people interested in this page. Since it is unnacceptable that such a controversial subject stays unsourced for so much time, I'm removing the sections and leaving only the data, which is unsourced too, I might add. Victão Lopes I hear you... 21:36, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Effects of the Prohibition
"Among the world's countries, Brazil has the second largest number of people murdered annually by firearms, second to Venezuela. Each year about 39,000 people in Brazil are shot to death. However, worldwide statistics do not show unambiguously whether this number would be reduced by the prohibition of the sale of firearms and ammunition."

I'd add that it would be necessary to prove that the number of *people murdered* would go down. If the number of people shot to death goes down, but the total number of people being murdered doesn't, then it just means people are being now stabbed, strangled or kicked to death, which is hardly an improvement of any situation. Ricardo Dirani (talk) 17:47, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Sentence fragment in background section
"The gun ban proposal received broad support in the press, while celebrities were generally in favor of it, only Brazil's anti-ban social groups and right-wing press, most importantly Veja the Brazilian news magazine (indeed weekly publication of any kind) with the largest paid circulation in the country."

I suspect that the anti-ban social groups and right-wing press were against the ban, but I'm not going to assume it. Someone with better Portuguese understanding than I will need to fix it. Linktex (talk) 11:20, 7 October 2021 (UTC)