Security reformers in Bolsonaro’s Brazil look to America’s pro-gun campaigners

Brazil's academic research community overwhelmingly predicts new measures will lead to more violence in Brazil - a country with around 43,000 gun deaths per year. But in the Bolsonaro era, their arguments are losing to a political bloc that is resolutely opposed to empirical research and that takes many of its cues from pro-gun campaigners in the United States.