{"id":3984,"date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/president-rousseff-u-turns-on-firearms-bill\/"},"modified":"2014-06-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T00:00:00","slug":"president-rousseff-u-turns-on-firearms-bill","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/president-rousseff-u-turns-on-firearms-bill\/","title":"President Rousseff u-turns on firearms bill","content":"

In breach of the Disarmament Act<\/u><\/a> and backtracking on her original position on the issue, President Dilma Rousseff signed into law on June 18 a bill that permits off-duty prison guards to bear arms.<\/p>\n

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Complementary Bill of Law No. 28\/2014<\/u><\/a>, approved by Congress in May, was submitted by the Ministry of Justice after pressure from prison guards. In 2012, the president vetoed a similar bill since it went \u201cagainst the national policy to combat violence\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Conectas, IDDD<\/u><\/a> (Defense of the Right to a Defense Institute) and Sou da Paz<\/u><\/a> have issued a statement of condemnation to President Rousseff, classifying as \u201cregrettable\u201d her \u201clack of commitment to the arms control policy\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Read the statement in full:<\/p>\n

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Statement of Condemnation of the Presidential Approval of Bill 28\/2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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President Dilma Rousseff signed into law on June 18 the bill that permits off-duty prison guards to bear arms.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is a mistake to believe that the ability of prison guards to bear arms when off duty will result in more security for this professional category.<\/em> After vetoing the bill twice, declaring that it was incompatible with Brazil\u2019s national security policy, the president has now approved the law.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The most appropriate political option would be to invest in structuring and valuing the profession.<\/em> The passage of this law undermines the progress that has been made since the approval of the Disarmament Act.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is regrettable that the federal government has demonstrated such a lack of commitment to the arms control policy, particularly considering that 33,000 people are killed every year by firearms.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Conectas Human Rights, the Defense of the Right to a Defense Institute – IDDD and the Sou da Paz Institute condemn this decision and will continue to monitor the additional regulation to the text of the recently-approved law and its consequences on public security.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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