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3,000 people march for a gun free Brazil
22 October 2003
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Over 3,000 people marched for a gun free Brasil
in the
capital Brasilia this Wednesday, in support of sweeping reforms
to the country's gun laws currently being debated
by legislators. The event
was organized by local IANSA member Convive, a victims' support
group. Marchers held crosses to symbolize gun deaths -- in Brasil
there
are more than 100 every day. |
The march finished up in front of the National
Congress
building, where the representatives of the Constitution and Justice
Commission were just about to start debates on the new gun law,
called the Disarmament Statute. |
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Hundreds
of children, who had been excused from school in
support of tighter gun laws, participated in the event. Here, young
boys throw toy weapons into a bin marked "trash".
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