Obama ran his mouth in Brazil recently, spouting nonsense about gun laws in the US:
"Some of you may be aware our gun laws in the United States don't make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon any time. Without much, if any, regulation, they can buy it over the Internet, they can buy machine guns," Obama told the audience.
Machine guns?!? Yeah, yeah, nonsense.
But here's the kicker, and let's go to the videotape! Come in at the 40 second mark. What does the crowd do after Obama says "Anybody can buy any weapon any time"? They go nuts! What, did Brazil score a goal in the World Cup?
Not really. It turns out Brazil has very restrictive gun laws and very corrupt police. The upshot proves the old adage that when you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Their gun homicide rate is roughly five times that of the US.
The public is not happy. Back in 2006 they rejected by referendum an attempt to further limit civilian access to weapons. And their current President, a former paratrooper and law-and-order candidate, ran on a "Suns out, guns out" message:
Bolsonaro won the presidency by running on a far-right, law-and-order platform, and often delighted supporters at campaign stops with his signature “guns up” hand gesture. His maverick presidential run energized a base of rural landowners, Christian conservatives and free-market hawks who yearned for a tougher response to years of rising violence and political graft.
The temporary decree, which will expire in 120 days unless ratified by Congress, is likely to thrill his supporters, but many others fear it will only worsen violence in Brazil. The country suffered a record 64,000 murders in 2017, the most in the world. Nearly 45,000 of those homicides involved firearms.
A former paratrooper who took office on Jan. 1, Bolsonaro eventually wants to overturn a 2003 law that effectively banned the civilian purchase of guns.
“To guarantee citizens their legitimate right to defense, I, as president, will use this weapon,” Bolsonaro said, holding up the pen he used to sign the decree.
That was January. Bolsonaro issued another decree in May, which went to the courts.
In any case, Obama may have thought he was addressing yet another typical Dem fundraiser Upper West Side audience desperate for gun control. He chose poorly.
Buckeye:
What a wonderful contribution your daughter is making today!
Good for her.
I prayed for your upcoming surgery today at Mass.
Also prayers of thanksgiving for Desmond!
Anyone else need a prayer or two?
Posted by: D | June 02, 2019 at 01:37 PM
Nervanas one of the sharper analysts, part of radio hurra pretty much the only pro western network in the middle east, that's why you rarely hear of it, I came across hed in the khashoggi kerfluffle
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 02, 2019 at 01:37 PM
Keying off captains contribution in the horde, kornilov was perhaps the only competent commander among the white Russians, it was his idea to dispatch Lenin right off which would have spared us the unpleasantness
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 02, 2019 at 01:40 PM
MM
Yes he is a big boy.
Last day or two they signed perhaps the best wide receiver coming out of high school also.
Posted by: Buckeye | June 02, 2019 at 01:42 PM
Maryrose,
She has always been good at the events that require endurance.
I was a sprinter in high school, anything more than about 30 seconds, and I was out of my comfort zone.
Posted by: Buckeye | June 02, 2019 at 01:46 PM
Tiger is really coming on strong today.
Posted by: Buckeye | June 02, 2019 at 01:49 PM
Until that putt:)
Posted by: Buckeye | June 02, 2019 at 01:54 PM
Still a ways to go, but it's fun to see Buckeye.
I was binge watching Les Miserables which has been on for hours and hours and hours. It's my favorite movie and favorite play of all time, but those things end in 2 hours. This goes on all day and night, and it's sad as hell. I needed a change, and thank jib for posting that Tiger is playing.
Posted by: Jane | June 02, 2019 at 02:08 PM
I lived in the world of continuous quality improvement for 35 years and Deming and Taguchi had a lot of good advice. It was when organizations like ISO came long that a lot started getting bogged down.
ISO 9000 became ISO 9001 became ISO 200762. It became ridiculous just to do the paperwork to keep up.
Bureaucracies breed paperwork.
We were working in automotive to reduce defects to 1 part/million, which is pretty amazing, which is why I still don't quite understand how some engineers overlook glaring defects.
Airbus had similar issues with dumbed down cockpits, but it seems that Boeing didn't learn from their experience very well. Takata' biggest business is airbags. When the Xbox first came Microsoft got hammered for several billion because of a design defect in a circuit board.
They tried to blame their vendor but MSFT signed off on all of the design work. Sometimes they forget to build in reasonable tolerances.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | June 02, 2019 at 02:28 PM
Matt, filing TPS forms is in the contracts. Producing something that works, not so much.
Posted by: henry | June 02, 2019 at 02:35 PM
Is it true they built mcas with no backup?
Posted by: Narciso79 | June 02, 2019 at 02:39 PM
@realDonaldTrump
Peggy Noonan, the simplistic writer for Trump Haters all, is stuck in the past glory of Reagan and has no idea what is happening with the Radical Left Democrats, or how vicious and desperate they are. Mueller had to correct his ridiculous statement, Peggy never understood it!
Posted by: henry | June 02, 2019 at 03:07 PM
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Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | June 02, 2019 at 03:53 PM