This archive report was first published on 5 August 2019.
On Sunday, the United States was in mourning following two mass shootings that killed 29 people in less than 24 hours in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
According to official data, Brazil had 65,602 murders in 2017, a number that President Jair Bolsonaro believes can be reduced by allowing citizens to carry guns.
"Disarming people isn't going to keep that from happening," Bolsonaro said in a statement to reporters in Brasilia.
He pointed to a similar incident in Brazil in March, where two former students of a school in Suzano, in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, killed eight people and wounded 11 before taking their own lives.
"Brazil is, on paper, extremely unarmed; and a similar thing has already happened here in Brazil," Bolsonaro told reporters.
