A FLEXIBILIZAÇÃO DO PORTE DE ARMAS DE FOGO NO BRASIL

Abstract

This research examines the changes, benefits and harms brought about by the disarmament statute, and analyzes whether it would not be better to make possession more flexible by improving access to weapons and ammunition so that the citizen has more means of defending himself. A major offense to the right of freedom and the citizen is made when a statute strongly restricts the right and freedom of any ordinary civilian to obtain a firearm for self-defense, with its various limitations, this restriction was brought with the promise that the crime would decrease, as evidenced by statistical data that has not been fulfilled, leaving the impression that the citizen's freedom is being curtailed by nothing. For the development of this work, bibliographic research will be used, which is a descriptive, basic, qualitative and quantitative research, also analyzing statistical data. Based on the data collected in the survey, there has been a great increase in crime in recent years, showing frightening numbers of deaths in Brazil, as 65,602 homicides occurred in 2017, as well as relatively high numbers of homicides in their Regions, even after the period of validity. statute, besides that as proven analyzing several countries that have a policy in favor of armament that the old popular thought "more guns more crimes" may be wrong. It is also evident through data the frightening number of weapons that end up in the hands of criminals through trafficking and other illegal means. What is sought with this research is to clarify the theme in a broad way so that the reader's opinion can better be based on the flexibility of size whether it is viable or not, considering the fundamental right of freedom, security, self-defense and analyzing the high criminal rates we have today.