here ya go Z

[RUSSO]

It isn't just that. Their water is polluted and the crime rate is very high.

If I were going to visit SA I'd go to Ecuador and Peru. Their history is fascinating. Plus I want to try coca leaves.

I've never done drugs, but marijuana and coca leaves make me curious.

I dont think polluted water is only a brazilian issue:

America's Top 10 Most-Polluted Waterways

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/03/top-10-polluted-rivers-waterways

And about the crime, there are areas where it is high, and others that are not, but those dont make the news headlines... Dont believe every piece of propaganda you see in TV.

Besides that, if you look into your own country, do you feel safe with so many mass shootings happening so often?

MASS SHOOTINGS - 2016
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?page=1

14 pages only in 2016

Ps. Peru is awesome. Do the trip (machu picchu) and you be in awe

[Irene]

Besides that, if you look into your own country, do you feel safe with so many mass shootings happening so often?

It's not the big deal other countries make of it, and I have a somewhat unique view of our criminals and their issues due to my former occupation.

I got my first revolver at 16 and competed against other teens my age. I'm a gun owner. You're never going to get me to cower in the presence of them.

If I get shot, I get shot. You can't stop karma, unless you're armed, which has happened all across this country. Creeps have been ventilated by legal gun owners. I celebrate every time I hear of such a case.

As regards our waterways,etc., we've made great strides in cleaning them up. Lake Superior is a notable success. The chubs are starting to come back from near extinction.

A stream near a place I lived in the late 90's was polluted with heavy metals. That's been successfully cleaned up as part of a superfund effort.

[Norval]

, , , , grins and smiles and GOLD for yah Irene. 

[ArMaP]

It's not the big deal other countries make of it, and I have a somewhat unique view of our criminals and their issues due to my former occupation.

That's the problem, people always have a different view from outside.

[Irene]

, , , , grins and smiles and GOLD for yah Irene. 

Hey, thanks.   

[Pimander]

Brazil has ahigher murder rates that the states but.

Among the large American cities, with more than 250 thousand people, the following surpass Rio in murder rate: St. Louis, Missouri, 59.23, according to the Mexican Institute (50 to the "Neighborhood Watch"); Baltimore, Maryland, 54.98, according to the Mexican Institute (34 to the "Neighborhood Watch"); Detroit, Michigan, 43.80, according to the Mexican Institute (43,5 to "Neighborhood Watch"); New Orleans, Louisiana, 41.44 according to the Mexican Institute (39 to the "Neighborhood Watch"); Newark, New Jersey, 33; Buffalo, New York, 23; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 23; Memphis, Tennessee, 21; Atlanta, Georgia, 20; Cincinnati, Ohio, 20; Oakland, California, 20; and, a favorite destination of many Brazilians, Miami, Florida, with 19.

http://otaviopinto.com/index.php/2016/07/31/large-american-cities-murder-rates-rio/

[zorgon]

Brazil also has nice Rocks

Now if I could get our Brazilian members to send me some 

[RUSSO]

Brazil also has nice Rocks

Now if I could get our Brazilian members to send me some 

Humm... I happen to know some people from there... 

Lets see what happens...

[Irene]

Brazil has ahigher murder rates that the states but.
http://otaviopinto.com/index.php/2016/07/31/large-american-cities-murder-rates-rio/

Honestly, I'd rather be shot than to be hacked to pieces with a machete while still alive.

[Irene]

In the news today, and just for the European anti-gun crowd -

Man speeding pursued by officer. Chase ends and the officer is overpowered by the offender. Legally armed citizen then saves his life.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/14/good-guy-with-a-gun-saves-deputy-from-being-beaten-to-death/

[ArMaP]

In the news today, and just for the European anti-gun crowd -

Do we have an European anti-gun crowd here?

[The Seeker]

In the news today, and just for the European anti-gun crowd -

Man speeding pursued by officer. Chase ends and the officer is overpowered by the offender. Legally armed citizen then saves his life.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/14/good-guy-with-a-gun-saves-deputy-from-being-beaten-to-death/

Now that was a good find Irene  I don't walk out of the house without one in my front pocket(my backup) and a Glock .357 sig in my back pocket... Hopefully people are paying attention for contrary to popular belief all police officers are not bad apples...

Seeker

[Norval]

GOLD for yah , yah grouchy, old, inquisitive Seeker for carrying what counts.

, , , It proves you DO care!

[zorgon]

Do we have an European anti-gun crowd here?

depends Are you anti gun? 

[Irene]

Do we have an European anti-gun crowd here?

That's where most of the opposition seems to be coming from. It's the same over at Adam Tom Sam.