Read more about the increase of firearms sold in the first semester of 2021 here [find out here] and the overall increase during Bolsonaro’s administration [find out here] [find out here]. The president has a vocal pro-gun stance [1], which includes signing more than 30 normative acts to ease firearm ownership [find out here] [find out here] [find out here] in the past years. Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]
Acts that employ tools of constant authoritarian reinvention. Authoritarian manifestations that coexist with the democratic regime and affect democracy as a system of choice of legitimate representatives or as institutional dynamics that protect rights and guarantee pluralism.
Acts justified by tackling the covid-19 pandemic or another emergency. Under the democratic constitutional regime, emergency acts must respect the Constitution and protect the rights to life and health. Even so, because they create exceptional restrictions related to the health crisis, they require constant control over their necessity, proportionality and temporal limitation. In the long run, they demand attention so as not to become an anti-democratic 'new normal' beyond the moment of emergency.