At 3:00 PM -0400 9/11/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Brazil gun buyback plan hits mark
>
> Brazil's federal police force says a government campaign to cut gun crime
>by offering to buy back weapons is going twice as well as expected.
> Police said they had met their target of collecting 80,000 guns in under
>three months, rather than six months.
> "This campaign could collect up to a million guns, but for that we would
>need to dramatically expand the number of collection posts and that takes
>time," Rubem Cesar Fernandes, head of the Rio-based anti-violence group
>Viva Rio told the Associated Press.
How fortunate for the police that their apparent goal has been shifted from
reducing crime to collecting guns. I am sure that they will be very
successful by that metric. I trust one or two of them will still be tasked
with measuring crime.
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