Good things start to happen, with good government

There's a great idea, rather then sell people more guns in order to kill each other, why not pay people to give there guns away, so that they don't kill people? Beautiful, simple, fucking concept. If your country has a high # of gun related murders, one might be led to the conclusion that guns might be killing people, and that maybe... just maybe, a good way of reducing the murder rate, would be by reducing the # of guns in your country?
Brasil has been able to make steps in the right direction in recent years because they elected a president that genuinely would like to improve the lives of everyone in Brasil (not just a handful of upper class 'business men'). He has also taken a very Canadian approach to his policy making. He walks the IMF tight rope, while he still tries to implement social programs that would benefit the majority of people in his nation (the poor). While originally the leader of the left-wing Worker's Party, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave the party a dead centre image, in order to obtain, and stay in power. So congrtulations to Brasil for not wanting the people of there country to not want kill each other anymore.
As for a group of human beings that can't seem to get enough out of watching things blow up, and enjoy frequent showers of human body parts, the U.S. Army has gone back to bombing the people of Falluja, story here.
Bringing the body count in Iraq to somewhere between: 11, 000 to 13,000 people dead. On thatr note, an appropriate quote from Bush Sr.

"Extending the war into Iraq would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Exceeding the U.N.'s mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."

-- From "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam"
by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time Magazine, 1998