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China is one of the countries with the strictest gun ban, but no one knows that Chinese people many years ago actually legally owned guns. Civilians have not only pistols, but even grenades, explosives, and so on.
This is because a few decades ago, the mainland's national strength was very weak, and the common people had two earthen guns per capita, ready to fight at any time.
So why is it necessary to strictly enforce the gun ban now? What will happen to China if guns are not banned? Lao Mei is the best example.
1. The United States, where guns are legal
In the United States, residents of all states can purchase guns, and private gun ownership is a right, not a privilege, for Americans. It is very convenient to buy guns in the United States, and they are sold in supermarkets.
It's also not expensive, and the cheapest guns can cost only a few tens of dollars. They are a country that takes the law very seriously and holds itself that "the right of people to keep and bear arms is inviolable".
For many years, the U.S. government has been working hard to control and ban guns, but due to the special laws and terrain of the United States, this wish is almost impossible to achieve.
First of all, the American people are more supportive of firearms, and they think more about practicality. The United States is a vast and sparsely populated country, and if you encounter a robber or a wildlife attack, the police are almost too late and have to rely on themselves. Then, if everyone has a gun in their hands, they can solve their own safety problems.
And there are still some people who like hunting, so they will definitely not support the ban on guns. In addition, the arms business behind the guns will involve a large number of people.
If the gun ban is truly realized, then the arms dealer boss will definitely not be able to sit still, after all, the gun manufacturing industry contributes more than 40 billion dollars to the United States every year.
If politicians want to ban guns, they will touch the interests of arms dealers. Politicians, in turn, need the support of conglomerates, including arms dealers.
This has come full circle and returned to the question of whether guns are legal, so the implementation of the gun ban in the United States has never been realized. Besides, Lao Mei is not worried about people rebelling with guns at all.
They have 450,000 active troops and 185,000 in reserve, and the militia with guns is not at the same level as these well-armed and well-trained soldiers.
On the one hand, guns can ensure the safety of people's property, and will not cause harm to national interests, and even promote the development of the gun manufacturing industry, resulting in the United States has been allowing people to own guns for many years.
But what are the consequences of gun ownership among the people? Shootings happen almost all the time.
On December 6, 2023, a number of shootings occurred on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, resulting in three deaths and four serious injuries.
The president of the United States said that in a single year, there were more than 600 mass shootings and 40,000 people were killed by shootings, which is a huge number.
The campus in Las Vegas is just three miles away from the Mandalay Bay Hotel. The hotel hosted a music festival in 2017, and unfortunately a gunman used a rifle with a ribbon butt to shoot at the festival site.
There were about 22,000 spectators on the pitch at the time, perhaps because the music was so loud that no one noticed the gunman's existence.
In just 10 minutes, more than 60 people died at the gunman's guns, and more than 500 suffered abrasions or shock. Similar shootings abound, which is why the mainland has banned guns altogether.
2. The reasons for China's gun ban
China officially implemented the gun control law in 1996, and since then a complete ban on guns has been introduced, which has played a very positive role in shooting cases. The reason for China's gun ban has a lot to do with a gun battle between police and bandits in Beijing since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
In 1992, there was a famous shooting in which more than a dozen police officers were injured and hundreds of bullets flew in the air.
Some of those bandits used hunting rifles, and some used earthen guns, which were extremely powerful, and many of them were disabled. This is the famous 311 Xizhimen shooting.
In this shooting, a detective was left with seven bullets in his brain forever and became a vegetative state in a coma.
Eight months later, although he woke up miraculously, he was unable to walk normally, and he could have a very severe seizure.
Another criminal policeman who was shot nearly 100 rounds of scattered bullets, went through nearly 20 surgeries, and still did not take out all the bullets, although his life was saved, but every rainy day he was in unbearable pain, and he still can't take care of himself.
Another detective, his pelvis was directly shattered by the bullet and he was paralyzed for life. It is also because of this incident that China is more determined to ban robbery.
In fact, did you know that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China allowed its own use of firearms. Because it was still very chaotic at that time, although national independence and liberation had been completed, there were still some lawless elements who wanted to destroy the peace.
In order to ensure the safety of the people, the state allows ordinary people to buy local guns, which is very similar to the situation in the United States today. But China is so big and there are so many people.
It is different from the United States, which is large and sparsely populated, and easy to manage. If China does not impose a gun ban, heavy casualties like the Las Vegas shooting in the United States will often occur.
Take, for example, a brawl in Hunan in 1993. On September 11, a large-scale sectarian fighting occurred in Matian Township, Yongxing County. There are two villages in Matian Town, one is called Jinggang Village, and the villagers are all surnamed Li, and the other is called Matian Village, and the villagers are all surnamed Liu.
The resentment between Jinggang Village and Ma Tian Village has been backlogged for many years, and I don't know when the two sides have looked at each other unpleasantly.
Later, under the leadership of their respective village chiefs, a large-scale sectarian fight broke out between the two villages.
The scale of the incident was huge, because China did not strictly ban guns at that time, so the two sides used homemade pistols, bird guns, earthen guns, explosives bags, machetes and other weapons with very powerful lethality.
More than 5,000 people were involved in the fight, some with guns that knocked off their jaws, eyes, arms, and lifelong disabilities, while others had their legs blown off by explosives packs.
But more often than not, residents' homes, schools, and shops were smashed, causing millions of economic losses.
It lasted 34 hours until the public security cadres and government cadres came to the front line in time to persuade and suppress the fight by force, that the situation was calmed down and the mass work in the surrounding towns and villages was ensured.
What is the concept of a battle of more than 5,000 people? At that time, Li Yunlong's independent regiment was only 2,000 people when it first debuted.
If a company is counted as 100 heads, then this one is 25 companies on both sides, which cannot be simply described as a sectarian fight, this is simply a local armed conflict.
After the battle, more than 1,000 armed police fighters collected four artillery trucks, 95 earthen cannons, 57 earthen guns, and even 233 kilograms of explosives, 2,590 rounds of detonators, and 255 grenades in the two villages.
It's hard to imagine how many such "big" shootings would have happened if our country hadn't put in place a gun ban policy.
This shooting after shooting has accelerated the pace of implementing a gun ban in our country.
If China does not ban guns, what will happen? Will it be the same as the United States? Let's find out next.
Third, if China does not ban guns
Many people say that if China had banned guns as the United States did, shootings might happen every day. If a woman has a gun, she can protect herself very well.
Those who are bullied and weak can also stand up and defend their dignity with guns, so that those strong people are no longer so arrogant. But is that really the case?
First of all, our national conditions are different from those of the United States, and there are even greater regional and cultural differences. If China does not ban guns, it will face more problems and challenges than the United States. First, the issue of gun control will be more complex.
In order to ensure the safety of ordinary people's lives and ensure the legality and safety of firearms, our government needs to establish a more complete regulatory mechanism and law enforcement system.
What kind of guns should be used for defense, what kind of guns will be used for illegal acts, and these are all subject to very strict background checks and vetting by the government.
The Chinese population is huge, and completing this review will require a lot of manpower and material resources, more than the total gun ban. In addition, our values and culture are different from those of the United States.
The United States is a country that is just over 200 years old, and it has acquired territory through wars of independence, purchases, annexations, or occupations.
This is contrary to our traditional culture and morality.
Firearms cannot be considered a sign of power and a status symbol. Nor will our country encourage us to use guns to solve problems.
Because once such a concept becomes popular, it will cause the collapse of morality and ethics in the entire society and the aggravation of public safety problems. In other words, if guns are legal in China, social inequality will increase.
In addition, the Chinese population is large, if guns are not banned, then the number of guns will be hundreds of times thousands of times that of the United States, and it will be even more difficult to control.
If these guns fall into the hands of criminals, the crime rate will increase greatly, and in serious cases, it will also threaten national security and social stability.
Epilogue:
The above is the reason why China wants to ban guns, whether it is from the region or population, whether it is from the belief or the nation, whether it is from the regional development or cultural traditions, the gun ban is conducive to the stability of the country and social stability.
Of course, as the country with the strictest gun ban in the world, China's hard work behind it is self-evident. With such a large territory as China, the crime rate has always remained extremely low. Girls can also walk comfortably on the street after eight o'clock.
What do you think about this?