Gun control is having predictable results in Brazil, as even dead people aren't immune from gun violence.

A dead woman lying in her casket was hit by a stray bullet during a wake in Rio de Janeiro and mourners fled in panic, police said on Wednesday.

The bullet, fired in a shootout between a drug gang and police in a slum adjacent to the cemetery Tuesday, pierced the casket inside the cemetery's chapel and got lodged in the corpse's pelvis. Clenilda da Silva, 49, a babysitter, had died the previous day of a heart attack.

The bullet was not removed before burial. . .

Standoffs between drug gangs and police or just between rival gangs often claim innocent lives in Rio, which has one of the world's highest murder rates.

The gun control lobby would undoubtedly point out that gun control in Brazil is relatively new, and needs time to take hold. Maybe after 25 years or so, they'll have a gun crime rate as low as "gun free" Washington D.C., or Chicago.