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Gunmen have attacked a convoy of trucks carrying uranium fuel to a nuclear power plant near the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, police say.
The convoy came under attack as it drove past a community controlled by drug traffickers in Angra dos Reis, a tourist city 145km (90 miles) from Rio.
Police escorting the convoy responded and a shootout followed. No-one was injured or detained.
The convoy reached the Angra 2 plant safely 20 minutes after the attack.
The attack in the Rio-Santos highway is the latest in a series of violent incidents in an area popular with visitors.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47635706
In Brazil, all firearms are required to be registered with the minimum age for gun ownership being 25.[1] It is generally illegal to carry a gun outside a residence, and a special permit granting the right to do so is granted to certain groups, such as law enforcement officers.[2] To legally own a gun, an owner must hold a gun license, which costs R$1000,[2] and pay a fee every three years to register the gun, currently at R$85.[3] Registration can be done online or in person with the Federal Police.[4]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @10:25PM (11 children)
Sounds like some Wild West movie with people going around shooting guns, its all over, and life continues like nothing happened.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @10:30PM (8 children)
If that happened in USA, at least a dozen unarmed african-americans would be dead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @12:24AM
... and life continued as if nothing happened. #BLM
(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Friday March 29 2019, @12:51AM (6 children)
Wouldn't at least one LEO have attended hospital with a "non-life-threatening injury"?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 29 2019, @02:14AM (5 children)
Yes, of course. Broken fingernails must be treated immediately, or they may turn into broken fingers, or worse.
Sometimes, I believe that standard police practice requires that an officer be treated for imaginary injuries. If there is no injury, then there was no crime, or some such nonsense. Even if the individual cops all agree that there were no injuries, a sergeant can order a junior officer to "have that looked at".
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @02:20AM (4 children)
I was watching Live PD and a cop got hit in the face by some guy. He said he was fine but every other officer who arrived on the scene came up to him one by one and asked if needed to get it looked at. It was kind of weird that they wouldn't let it alone.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by lentilla on Friday March 29 2019, @03:08AM (3 children)
Could also be a social dominance thing. There can be a subtle insult implied by asking if someone is OK, and it may be seen as a sign of weakness to say "actually; no; I'm not OK". It is frenemy [wikipedia.org] kind of behaviour.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @04:17AM (1 child)
Maybe, but if you saw it that didn't seem to be what was going on.
(Score: 2) by lentilla on Friday March 29 2019, @05:58AM
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
-- Sigmund Freud
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @06:02PM
it's more likely because they see themselves as above "civilians", so if some pitiful slave actually gets a lick in, it freaks them all out. they'll do anything to keep your slave blood off of them too. well past legitimate concerns of disease transmission.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @11:39PM (1 child)
I'm just waiting for the first Internet Tough Guy to show up and tell us what he would have done if he had been there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @02:10PM
Anyone in the White House come to mind?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @10:29PM (2 children)
Spoiler Alert: When society tumbles into lawlessness you can probably expect people, at all levels, to no longer adhere to the law.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday March 29 2019, @03:56AM (1 child)
"If you live outside the law, you must be honest", Bob Dylan "Absolutely Sweet Mary".
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 29 2019, @01:45PM
(Score: 4, Funny) by Hartree on Thursday March 28 2019, @11:49PM (2 children)
"Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons? "
(Score: 4, Funny) by RandomFactor on Friday March 29 2019, @01:16AM (1 child)
"Some things in here don't react well to bullets."
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 3, Funny) by Freeman on Friday March 29 2019, @02:16PM
"Just wanted to feel the power between my legs, brother."
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @12:18AM (13 children)
That if you require gun registration (not background checks, actual gun registrations), people will start shooting at nuclear stuff.
It happens every time.
When was the last time you heard about anyone shooting at nuclear material in the US? Never. Because we have the Second Amendment.
You know what else we have -- English. The have gun registration in Brazil, and look what it's gotten them? They all speak some incomprehensible shit that no one from a country with the Second Amendment would speak.
And it goes on and on. Caipirinhas, Feijoada, nude beaches, samba music. When does it end? I'll tell you when -- the twelfth of never, that's when -- unless they get a Second Amendment!
Barbarians!
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by realDonaldTrump on Friday March 29 2019, @01:28AM (1 child)
"Brazil and the United States stand side-by-side in their efforts to ensure liberty and respect for traditional family lifestyles with respect to God." President Bolsonaro.
They're having big problems with the Carnival and with many things. Jair is very concerned. Very concerned. And I think he's going to make some strong moves on that. By the way, did you see his Tweet? Something that, if you're at work maybe you don't want to look at it. But it shows you what goes on. And it's very sad. pic.twitter.com/u0qbPu9sie [t.co]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @10:15PM
Maybe try linking to the video/image directly since it appears to require you to be friended (which you Mr. Trump obviously are.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @02:17AM (2 children)
Nonsense. My best targets are depleted uranium disks cut from nuclear weapon cores.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday March 29 2019, @09:39PM (1 child)
What use does depleted uranium serve in nuclear weapons?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @02:43AM
I was going to say "Why, as bullet-proof armor [wikipedia.org] of course!", but the next entry of the wiki page it actually states it is used as tamper in fission bombs. Damn facts ruining my jokes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @04:01AM (6 children)
The joke is that if it happened in the US all the usual suspects would be all "we gotta ban guns".
(Score: 4, Funny) by NotSanguine on Friday March 29 2019, @05:59AM (5 children)
Except the only one who is talking about *banning* guns is you.
Which of these folks [wikipedia.org] are calling for an outright ban on firearms?
I'll make it easy for you -- none of them. This whole banning/confiscating guns bit is just conspiracy theory bullshit.
You may think that everyone should own at least six guns and be ready to open fire at anyone who belches too loudly. That's fine. Many people agree with you. Others do not.
By tarring those who don't believe exactly as you believe with the same broad brush, you're exhibiting the same behavior that your decry in others. English speakers call that 'hypocrisy', in case you were wondering.
Wouldn't it make more sense to ensure that *your* gun rights (assuming you're not diagnoseably nuts or a felon) are protected by cutting the legs out from under those who would restrict the rights of responsible gun owners by, at a minimum, making all *commercial* gun transactions (note the use of *commercial* here) subject to background checks, regardless of whether they occur in a gun shop, a gun show or a flea market?
Once that's in place, you can reasonably say that "reasonable regulation is in place, now get off my lawn before I shoot you dead with my legally owned firearm, you candy-ass, gun-hating, man-bun wearing, pansy piece of shit!"
But no. You need to take the position that psychotic mental institution escapees, drug-addled lady-boys (not that there's anything wrong with lady-boys, I'm just on a hyphenation kick at tha moment), domestic abusers hunting down their victims, and shit-canned postal workers should be able to access as many weapons and ammo as possible, immediately, with no regard to public safety. Is that about the size of it?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @06:10AM (3 children)
That's not how it works:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D0qOkV_Dqi4/WeVVqU8M_1I/AAAAAAAAFMg/1Sy8QczzNpQEB7WozCsoNYNGKMXMhftjQCLcBGAs/s1600/cake.jpg [blogspot.com]
(Score: 3, Touché) by NotSanguine on Friday March 29 2019, @06:28AM (2 children)
Nice straw man you got there.
So tell me, do you think that:
Inquiring minds don't really care, but we're asking anyway.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @04:07PM (1 child)
It's a bit over the top, but can you point at one instance, in any country, where legislators removed or reduced gun controls?
Not court cases that threw out laws, but an actual political body, that revoked a gun control law.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday March 29 2019, @07:52PM
Why don't you answer my question first?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 29 2019, @05:42PM
For a good starter list of the people who want to confiscate guns, you could look here: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/02/foghorn/debunking-the-myth-that-no-one-wants-to-take-your-guns/ [thetruthaboutguns.com] Diane Feinstein leads the list.
Nancy Pelosi hopes the bump stock ban leads to a slippery slope: https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/05/pelosi-sure-hope-ban-bump-stocks-slippery-slope-gun-control/ [hotair.com]
Politicos from Illinois, California, New York, and Obama's attorney general: http://gunssavelives.net/blog/gun-laws/no-one-wants-to-ban-or-confiscate-guns-huh-these-quotes-from-anti-gun-leaders-say-otherwise/ [gunssavelives.net]
Quotes from Obama, Feinstein, Rahm Emmanuel, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and a select handful of last-generation politicians: https://ammo.com/articles/gun-grabbers-quotes [ammo.com]
We need to be clear that many gun grabbing fools intend to confiscate ALL WEAPONS. They sing a siren's song that almost sounds reasonable, then as soon as you compromise with them, they are clamoring for more, and ever more.
They can grab my gun from my cold, dead fingers - and I hope my corpse pulls the trigger one more time as they yank the gun away.
(Score: 3, Funny) by biffulator on Friday March 29 2019, @12:07PM
This happened at the nuke plant I used to work at on the Texas coast, STP. Truck carrying the new fuel showed up to the protected area gate and we noticed a shotgun blast near the right front wheel well. Drivers had no idea, remembered a loud sound but thought it was something on the road.
Probably turned into an incident you can look up on the NRC's site. I can't find it now, maybe they just chalked it up to being in Texas.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Friday March 29 2019, @01:18AM (2 children)
He ran one of the incredible campaigns. Somebody said it a little bit reminds people of our campaign, which I’m honored by. And, Jair is a big admirer of mine.
I'll tell you, I love this story, it shows how smart Jair really is. He knows that nuclear is one of the most important things to a country. Brazil, they have so much beautiful coal, it's great for Economy. But, nuclear is what brings true respect. MS-13 didn't show any respect. Or, any regard. But Jair protected his nuclear very strongly, very successfully -- Good Guys w/Guns. That's always the best way. As we've seen so many times. Very proud of Jair's Law Enforcement guys. And if they hadn't been around, I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon. Because I want Brazil to succeed. We need more countries like Brazil. The last thing we want in the United States is Socialism. But so many in our Democrat Party, sadly, have fallen in love with it. Used to be a great party, it's dieing -- and putting our Country in great danger. So foolish!!!!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 29 2019, @02:19AM (1 child)
Please, Donny, run in there. And, no, you won't need a weapon. May the Orange protect you!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @09:09PM
It is only a compromise if they are also giving something up. What have they given up ?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Shire on Friday March 29 2019, @02:54PM (3 children)
These two statements are in direct opposition. You don't put uranium found "in its natural state" into a reactor. Reactor fuel has been enriched and is in no way "natural" nor "without risk". It is in fact very unsafe which is why it was being transported in armored containers. You can't make a bomb with reactor fuel, but you can do a lot of other very bad things with it.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday March 29 2019, @09:47PM (1 child)
I'm going to take that to mean that the spokesperson was referring to the half-life of the fuel, which hadn't changed with processing. Of course, that's not a good measure of risk, but they have a disinformation campaign to run, so I'm willing to give them a little slack.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Shire on Saturday March 30 2019, @05:51PM
I'm only buying that if the guy was trying to say that the fuel was "natural" because it was headed into the plant as opposed to being spent fuel coming out of the plant which would have a wide variety of dangerous actinide decay products. It sounds more like a PR deflection than anything though because new fuel rods are highly enriched in U235 and are quite dangerous even in their "natural" unused state.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @07:19PM
Heavy-water reactors, such as the CANDU used in Argentina, can burn natural uranium.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @06:23PM
Don't go on a Big Ass Boning Tour in Brazil. It's just not worth it.