In 2012, there was a horrific incident in the United States that shocked the nation's Sandy Hook Elementary School. The gunman was an American named Adam, who, after an argument with his mother, took the gun in his hand and shot her in the head several times.
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As the police quickly stopped Adam from continuing his crimes, Adam shot himself in a hurry. When he committed suicide, it was discovered that Adam was carrying hundreds of rounds of ammunition on his body.
According to this matter, Daniel, the governor of the U.S. state of Connice, held a press conference. He said that the incident was quickly stopped by the Police in the United States, and if the police had not taken control of the situation in time, then Adam would probably have tried to take more innocent lives.
The incident took 27 victims, 20 of whom were all children, so the whole United States was shocked. The incident also attracted the attention of Obama, who gave a clear speech by the then US President Barack Obama.
He said that the failure of the U.S. government to save the young life in time was a fault on political issues. But now that mistakes have been made, they are even less likely to sit idly by and watch such a thorny issue, so there will be steps to raise safety expectations about gun violence.
Unfortunately, Obama did not clearly state at that time, what will the US government do next? But people can clearly see that behind the Adam incident, it actually reveals the problem of the flood of guns in the United States.
It has to be admitted that after 2012, the United States has gradually embarked on the road of gun control policy. But the effect does not seem to be particularly obvious, after all, in terms of gun control policies, china's effect can clearly rank first in the world.
In order to strengthen gun management, as well as to maintain social order, but also to protect the authority of relevant laws and regulations. The Firearms Control Law of the People's Republic of China was formally revised and passed in 1996 and came into force on October 1 of that year.
Among them, Article 3 of the General Provisions of Chapter 1 clearly stipulates that the state strictly controls firearms, and any individual or unit that possesses, manufactures, buys, sells, transports, rents and other firearms is illegal, and the state will also severely crack down on this phenomenon.
Then there will be a new problem here, since 1996 the relevant laws and regulations were officially adopted and implemented. So what was the phenomenon of Chinese owning guns like before 1996?
In fact, before the 1990s, Gun Control in China was not as strict as people thought. There are many reasons behind this, and three of them are the main reasons.
First, after the Liberation War, although the phenomenon of banditry in the whole country was severely cracked down, some of the weapons and equipment left by the bandits were not completely confiscated by the government, which became a potential threat to public security in society at that time.
Second, imperialism is eyeing the motherland. Third, the potential threat of the Kuomintang reactionaries cannot be ignored. Therefore, the whole people are soldiers, which can not only instantly improve the vigilance of the Chinese people in defending the rights and interests of the country and the people's property. Moreover, it will be able to prevent the remnants of some reactionaries from continuing to harass the normal life of the Chinese people on the mainland.
Therefore, the possession of guns was a normal manifestation of the country's war readiness at that time. At that stage, many elders were very conscious of physical fitness, self-defense and safety against the enemy. Especially after Sino-Soviet relations gradually became colder, there was an instant phenomenon that everyone was equipped with military weapons.
Although the professionalism is not very high, most ordinary people still know to be prepared to prevent problems before they occur. For example, digging holes in the mountains, hiding grenades in warehouses, and holding training competitions between villages.
Before 1996, it was common for Chinese to carry guns
You can recall that in some old movies, there are many elders who can not only hold long guns, but also seem to have sharpshooters in each village, which is not made up by the screenwriter, and some of the phenomena are more historical.
And militia skills such as mapping, designing woodland traps, and capturing prisoners were common at the time. Only later, due to the slow relaxation of the state of combat readiness, the country's economic development, military strength, and comprehensive national strength all went up, and its international status slowly stabilized. This tension is gone, and the trapping skills of the elders are applied to the capture of wild boars and hunting.
In the most tense moments, in addition to long guns, civilians will also have grenades and earthen guns, as well as mortars. But at that time, the people of the country did not want to master these weapons to seize the territory of the mountains and expand their own villages and towns, but to be ready to defend the country and defend the people at any time.
So since there is a potential threat, who will act as a manager of this phenomenon? Village chief or patriarch.
Chinese the traditional concept is very strong, not only respecting the elderly, but also respecting some people with higher generations. In the era of our grandfathers and above, a village will have a village chief, and the social status is very high, and there is a phenomenon that a village is a family, then the patriarch of this village will have a very heavy voice.
When encountering something big or small, as soon as the village chief or patriarch comes out to express his opinion, the ordinary people in the village will follow the order. For example, the patriarch did not allow people to casually take out guns and earthen cannons during the day and display them indiscriminately. The villagers would follow the words of the village chief or patriarch and act according to the rules. So there won't be a lot of guns or earthen guns fighting each other.
However, after the reform and opening up, the country's economic development immediately changed its strategy. What used to be a planned economy has since become a market economy. Through this reform, the mobility of people has been strengthened, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened, and the economic income of the country and the people has naturally increased steadily.
At that time, not to mention that the people were all soldiers, if they wanted to be prepared for war, they didn't even have the heart to study or maintain guns and artillery.
When the Chinese people are focused on economic development, then the necessity of all the people being soldiers is gone. At this time, there will be a new problem, that is, guns and artillery and even grenades that every household has before, and then it will not become a new hidden danger?
Due to the need to go out to work, the mobility of many villages and towns has become larger, and it is no longer like the phenomenon that a village is a family before, but there is a large number of foreign populations. At this time, if there is a conflict between people, it is natural to want to use the weapons in their hands to solve the problem. Coupled with the decline in the prestige of the village chief and the patriarch, these weapons will inevitably not be retained.
For example, in March 1994, between the surnames of Zhu and Peng in Beihai, Guangxi, because the villagers went to visit the graves of their respective family elders according to local customs. But the two sides had a large-scale mechanical struggle because of some small things.
They used mines and machine guns, and even 130 earthen guns. Not only were relatives and friends on both sides threatened with their lives, but local civil buildings were also destroyed. This time of armed conflict has directly put the question of whether everyone can continue to possess dangerous weapons on the table.
So the government began to consider these problems, but these data are not statistical, and they are shocked when they are counted. In 1987 alone, there were 14 gun-related cases in Guangdong, and in 1993 there were more than 1,080 gun crimes, an increase of 35% over last year.
And these data are only official statistics, so will there be more cases of weapons use by the underworld that people do not know about, that is, the use of weapons by the underworld? Then this is unpredictable.
Therefore, from a comprehensive point of view, the road of gun control policy must be taken. So in 1996, the mainland finally formulated the extremely strict Gun Control Law, which was continuously optimized and improved through many revisions.
So how effective is it? In the first three months after the promulgation of the relevant laws in 1996, the number of illegal firearms confiscated by local governments exceeded 700,000. Among these guns, there are also more than 2,000 types of local guns developed by the people themselves.
Since so many guns have been taught, is it just a matter of confiscating the guns owned by ordinary villagers? In fact, the scope of the seizures is very wide, including local governments, enterprises and security organizations, who could have owned guns before, but not after 1996.
But some hunting professionals have shown that they just rely on hunting to live, and without guns, they will change their normal life, how can they turn in their native guns? According to the relevant regulations, hunting professionals cannot have more than two firearms.
The few local hunter-gatherers, especially the nomadic peoples who have lived in the north for a long time, can legalize their possession of firearms according to the relevant regulations, and they must be regularly inspected, but the number will also be controlled, no less than two.
Third, some special groups of people who own guns also need to apply for a gun license. That is to say, without the approval of the government, no matter how special the professional status is, it is illegal to have no gun license.
The "Measures for the Management of Firearms" also clearly stipulates that party and government officials, whether they are traveling or working normally, must not be equipped with firearms, and only Chinese the equipment of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force and the militia can possess firearms in accordance with the law, but there are still separate regulations on the management of firearms.
China has always insisted on governing the country according to law, and when people find that there are people around them illegally collecting, transporting, manufacturing, buying, selling and leasing firearms, they can collect evidence of their criminal activities and report them, and the state will reward them for such prosecutions.
Three: What are the countries in the world where all people carry guns?
What countries in the world will allow citizens to carry guns by 2021? On the map of Europe, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain, among others, are among the countries with the highest number of legal gun ownership.
And these countries, because their social systems are different from the continent itself, have a large number of capitalists. And when guns circulate in the market, they can bring excess economic development to these countries. So slowly, more and more countries in the European map are legalizing guns.
Like the United States, the security risks in these countries are higher than people think because the whole people hold guns. In 1990, a total of 209,000 people died from guns worldwide, and these people were excluded from the war.
Although the data is very large, there is no downward trend in the number of people dying from guns. For example, in 2019, the data exposed by China News Network was that 251,000 people died in gun cases worldwide. On average, 4 of the 100,000 deaths a year are attributable to firearms, with 2/3 of the deaths attributable to him.
On the map of Asia, China has banned guns for all. But in some middle Eastern tribal areas, not only religious elders, local chiefs, but also some local governments and armed forces, they can have guns. Most importantly, in some very turbulent Middle East regions, even if the state strictly prohibits people from carrying guns, the effect is not obvious.
On the map of the Americas, in addition to the United States, which is recognized as one of the countries where everyone knows gun ownership, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia are also all areas where people hold guns. So friends who travel to these places should pay attention to the fact that they are not as strict as Chinese, who are not as strict as the guns.
The risk factor for gun ownership is significantly higher in various countries in Central and South America, where 40 out of 100,000 deaths per year are attributable to firearms, according to relevant data. As you know, the drug trade and economies in Central and South America are extremely unstable, and the proliferation of firearms has led to an increase in fatality data.
Among them, El Salvador is the country that stands out because it has the highest death rate due to guns in the world.
On the map of Africa, South Africa, Sudan and some troubled areas, such as Uganda and Liberia, are representatives of the whole population with guns. Overall, by 2021, more than 60% of countries worldwide will be in a state of universal gun ownership. So which of the remaining 40% of the country is banned from gun ownership?
Throughout Asia, only a dozen countries have banned guns. And there are no more than 40 countries worldwide that do not have guns on their own. For example, on the map of Asia, the effect of China's national ban on guns is the most obvious. In addition to this are Korea, Japan and Singapore as well as Malaysia.
Among them, the country that has successfully gone out of the circle because of the lowest gun fatality rate, do you know which one? In fact, it is not China, but Singapore. Of their 100,000 deaths a year, only 0.1 died from guns. This and their small population base, of course, there are certain reasons.
These countries, where guns are banned by the whole people, have a steady upward trend in economic development, but for the sake of public security and other issues, they have always insisted on walking on the road of not holding guns. So what are your unique insights on the topic of whether to bear a gun or not? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.