Brazil is going weapons-free. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero)
That's a big call - 600m! What sort of rifle is accurate to that range? Special sniper. Slightest breeze will move the bullet obviously. Edit: looking at weather map, very sheltered area atm, wind speed currently 1km/hr.
From the article: Witzel - like President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, gained support during Brazil's October elections running on a campaign of zero tolerance for criminals who have made daily life in Rio a harrowing ordeal. Rio will essentially be a proving ground for Bolsonaro's advocacy of maximum force with the use of extrajudicial killings. Last year there were 5,346 homicides in Rio - an eight-year high, while muggings and robberies have more than doubled since 2011. To try and address the crime, President Michel Temer in February put the army in control of security through the end of the year. Central to Witzel's stepped-up enforcement efforts will be a security council that reports to him directly, as well as a planned surveillance network utilizing as many as 30,000 security cameras. Earlier in the month Witzel traveled to Israel to meet with Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries - both of which develop drone technology. Bolsonaro, meanwhile, has said that cops who kill criminals should be given medals - and has promised to legally protect those who do. Days after the election, video showed Rio police loading the limp, bleeding bodies of two young men accused of drug trafficking into the bed of a pick-up. Bystanders cheered, with one yelling Bolsonaro’s name. “The NGOs, human rights activists and United Nations will have a fit,” Alexandre Frota, a congressman-elect, said on Twitter while sharing the video. “But the cleansing must be done.’’ Crime pervades Rio: Stray bullets strike schoolchildren. Residents of means are averse to conspicuous consumption. Commuters alter routes to avoid danger and the price of car insurance spiked with the surge in carjacking. -Bloomberg "I prefer the criminals get slaughtered instead of the criminals slaughtering us," said 41-year-old Suelen Souza, who sells stuffed potatoes at the bottom of the Dona Marta favela where a police officer was shot int neck earlier this month. Souza says Witzel's offensive could make it safer for her daughters to play in the neighborhood again. Her husband, engineer Jose Olympio Souza said "a shock of morality showing the government has strength - not indefinitely, but initially - would be good." ******************* My immediate thought was that Trump should institute the same program in Chicago.
Typical street scenes in San Francisco, circa 2028, eight years into President Kamala Harris' administration.