BRAZIL: GUN-RELATED CRIMES IN BRAZIL REACH EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS BRINGING ABOUT A DEBATE ON GUN CONTROL
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BRAZIL: GUN-RELATED CRIMES IN BRAZIL REACH EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS BRINGING ABOUT A DEBATE ON GUN CONTROL
- Title: BRAZIL: GUN-RELATED CRIMES IN BRAZIL REACH EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS BRINGING ABOUT A DEBATE ON GUN CONTROL
- Date: 5th October 1999
- Summary: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV CHILDREN PLAYING SOCCER IN SHANTYTOWN 0.05 2. SV DRUG DEALER WITH COVERED HEAD STANDING IN DOORWAY 0.13 3. CU GUNS IN DRUG DEALER'S PANTS 0.21 4. MCU (Portuguese) DRUG DEALER "PINOTI" (HIS HEAD COVERED) SAYING: "This is the life, guns are our defense in the community because police come and kill many innocent people in this community and we revolt and we enter in this." 0.37 5. CLOSE UP OF GUNS ON "PINOTI'S" BELT, SOUND OF HIM ANSWERING QUESTION IF THEY WILL DISARM. PINOTI SAYING: "Of course not. The police will massacre us, they would kill us. They would be the only ones with guns. Why can't we have them?" 0.48 6. MCU (Portuguese) DRUG DEALER "PINOTI" (HIS HEAD COVERED) SAYING: "I hoped to be a soccer player, but many people rejected me. No one wanted to give me the money to buy a ticket to go play, there I had to find this life. My future is this life, I don't want anything more. Trafficking for me is everything." 1.14 7. CU "PINOTI" SHOWING GUNS 1.22 8. SV IGNACIO CANO, ANTHROPOLOGIST, AND VIOLENCE SPECIALIST WALKING 1.29 9. MCU (English) ANTHROPOLOGIST AND VIOLENCE SPECIALIST IGNACIO CANO SAYING: "The traditional answer from the state to what's violence has also been very violent. Police have been very violent. And this again is feeding to the circle of violence, they are very violent because police are very violent. Police are very violent because criminals are very violent, and there we go in the circle." 1.45 (FILE) (TV GLOBO - NO ACCESS BRAZIL) 10. TV POLICE OFFICER HITTING MAN 1.51 11. SLV POLICE OFFICERS HITTING YOUNG MAN 1.59 12. LV POLICE OFFICER SHOOTING AT CAR 2.06 13. SV MAN HOLDING LITTLE GIRL HOSTAGE IN HIS ARMS WITH A KNIFE 2.12 14. SLV POLICE OFFICER SHOOTS MAN IN HEAD 2.15 15. SLV/SV OF PEOPLE KILLED BY GUNS (4 SHOTS) 2.37 RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (RECENT) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 16. MCU (English) ANTHROPOLOGIST AND VIOLENCE SPECIALIST IGNACIO CANO SAYING: "A gun will most likely not protect you but put you in greater danger. Research in different countries shows that people who have a gun at home have a far higher likelihood of being victimized than those who don't have a gun." 2.52 17. SV GUN SHOP, CHILDREN LOOKING AT GUNS." 2.57 18. CU SIGN IN PORTUGUESE "I HAVE A GUN BECAUSE I AM AGAINST VIOLENCE" 3.01 19. CU GUN CASE 3.07 20. SV SHOTGUN CASE 3.12 21. CU GUNS 3.18 22. CU AMMUNITION 3.24 23. MCU YOUNG MAN POINTING AT SHOTGUN 3.29 24. PAN GOLD GUN 3.37 25. CU GUN CASE 3.43 26. CU OF GUN 3.49 27. MCU (English) ATTORNEY FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DIRECTOR FOR THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREARM OWNERS AND RETAILERS, MARCELO TORRE: "Independently of the, of the security forces being outstanding or poor, he common citizen always has the right to defense himself, his family, himself or herself and his or her family, it's a natural law thing." 4.03 28. SLV/MCU/CU OF TORRES SHOOTING (6 SHOTS) 4.34 29. SV GUNS CONFISCATED BY POLICE 4.41 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
- Country: Brazil
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