Free America, shooting every day. If we want to say that the world has the best and safest security in the world, China can definitely rank among the best.
As we all know, China's attitude toward guns is absolutely strictly guarded. Manufacture or trafficking in firearms and ammunition is punishable by death. But in the early 1990s, chinese people used to have guns. Tao Siju, the minister of public security at the time, was blunt: a considerable number of guns and ammunition, explosives, and controlled knives illegally flowed into society. The so-called "gun freedom" naturally has an explosive increase in gun-related violent cases, even exceeding the security forces in some areas. At that time, the two villages fought, which could be regarded as a "war of annihilation" in Africa, and the grandeur of the scene was far greater than that of the United States today.
U.S. International Students Experience "Shooting Every Day"
Fortunately, in 1996, the state launched the second strike hard, and at the same time introduced the world's strictest gun ban law, the Gun Control Law of the People's Republic of China, which completely reversed the situation.
So why is gun control out of control in China? What major and vicious cases occurred that year? Why does China's gun ban have such a good effect?
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This video references the following materials:
"The Capital Conquers the Robbery of Bank Cash Trucks" Gong Faxuan;
Law and Life magazine
"1996 China Strike Hard Archives"
The Current Affair
"1996 National "Strike Hard" Unified Action"
National Humanities and History magazine
"Documentary of the Second "Strike Hard" in New China in 1996"
The Spring Festival of 1996 was destined to be unstable. On February 8, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China near Anhuili in Beijing's Chaoyang District was robbed. At that time, the staff was carrying the cash boxes into the cash truck, when suddenly, a group of masked gangsters with guns rushed out and fired several shots at the cash truck, two security guards were killed on the spot, and the robbers snatched two cash boxes containing millions of dollars and escaped in a blue Daewoo sedan. After receiving police in Beijing, the Beijing public security intercepted the city, and finally in the AnzhenXili residential area of Chaoyang District, they found discarded cars, two pry open cash boxes, and dark blue cardigan sleeves for masking.
On June 3, a cash cart in Zhichunli, Haidian District, was also robbed, and the gangsters drove and snatched two aluminum suitcases containing huge sums of money and large deposit certificates. On August 27, a cash truck at the Binhe Road branch of the Beijing City Cooperative Bank was again robbed by gunmen, killing and injuring both bank staff.
Lu Xianzhou, the main criminal of bank robbery
After analyzing the facts and evidence of the case, the police believe that the three bank robberies are likely to be the work of Lu Xianzhou, who was sentenced to a suspended death sentence and escaped from prison two years ago. So the question is, where did he get his gun?
We'll answer this question later.
Netizens over the age of forty may remember that when they were children, airsoft guns would be displayed in the windows of Xinhua bookstores and department stores. This is because the "Interim Measures for Firearms Management" promulgated after the founding of New China stipulates that ordinary people can have up to two civilian firearms per person, and only need to apply to the county-level public security organs for filing. The so-called civilian guns refer to shotguns, air rifles, sports rifles (hand) guns, etc., or for the use of professionals such as hunters and forest guards, or to meet the needs of the masses of the people to carry out shooting campaigns. However, regular guns are not cheap, so many farmers prefer to get a bird's ream or something like a bird's gun, or imitate a regular manufacturer's shotgun.
Cadres at or above the section chief level, as well as traffic officers and correspondents of various organs, and personnel of the security sections of factories, shops, and schools, can wear military firearms in accordance with the law.
At that time, the state would teach you how to shoot a gun, and when the local militia was training, whether you were an old man or an old lady, or a young man or a little girl, you had to pull it out and touch the gun.
The Chinese militia is full of real martial virtue
It was a special era, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the international environment was harsh, ready to fight a world war, cultivating a civil martial arts atmosphere, and could provide potential high-quality military resources for the army.
After the reform and opening up, the private sector is still allowed to possess civilian firearms such as shotguns, but the control is much stricter than in the past.
So, the same is allowing civilian gun ownership, why didn't there be too many vicious criminal cases involving robbery before the 90s, but the situation suddenly changed after the 90s?
This is because China's social structure was originally very stable, even static. Suddenly, into the commodity economy and society, people and materials began to flow; workers were laid off, and the gap between the rich and the poor increased; at the same time, some bad film and television works from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the West flowed in, triggering a large number of young people to imitate. The evil side of human nature began to expand rapidly. At such times, the proliferation of private guns will bring terrible consequences.
In 1990, there was only one gun-related case in Beijing, and by 1994 it had jumped to hundreds. As early as 1993, Guangdong had reached 1,080 cases, accounting for one-half of the country's gun-related cases.
By 1996, according to incomplete statistics, the number of registered civilian firearms nationwide was as high as 2.8 million, and it was still growing at a rate of 100,000 per year. As for the "black guns" that are not registered, there is no way to count them.
In September 1993, two villages in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, engaged in a battle, with a total of more than 5,000 "troops" dispatched by both sides, and the two village chiefs knew a little about military affairs and arranged fire points at the commanding heights to form a three-dimensional intertwined fire network. The village health center was transformed into a simple field hospital, and veterinarians were converted to military doctors. The battle lasted up to 34 hours, with up to 10 firings per minute. In the end, more than 1,000 armed police officers were dispatched in the county and tear gas canisters were used to calm down. The armed police also seized 4 artillery vehicles, 95 earthen guns, 57 earthen guns, 233 kilograms of explosives, 2,590 detonators and other weapons from two villages. This is still the "arsenal" at the village level! The shooting and explosion cases in the free United States are placed in front of our peasant brothers who are full of martial virtue, which is simply a child's home.
However, at that time, the villagers maintained a certain degree of restraint, and the casualties were not high. But when the black gun falls into the hands of criminals with antisocial personalities, the consequences are unimaginable.
On November 18, 1995, two gangsters in Zhaodong City, Heilongjiang Province, used two homeopathic and black guns to kill 32 people and injure 16 people in three hours. The motives of the two people are extremely speechless, one is that the fight seriously injured the other party, can not afford to pay the medical fee, the car was detained by the police station; the other is due to the irregular purchase of drugstore, was reported and closed. Therefore, the two men decided to take revenge on society, they already had a shotgun, then got a small-caliber rifle from an underground workshop, and finally bought 300 rounds of 16-gauge shotgun bullets in the fishing tackle shop. Of course, the store does not have any approval process and is illegally operated.
Liu Huaqiang's famous scene
In any era, there will be perverts bent on revenge on society to vent their resentment, but bullets and kitchen knives, which are more lethal, can be imagined.
At that time, when some criminals could not buy guns, or disliked the local guns and shotguns were not powerful enough, they hit the idea of military firearms. Some people will go to the border to find smugglers, such as Lu Xianzhou, who robbed a bank in Beijing; some people will come to the "nearest solution."
In the 1990s, an enterprise security section in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, lost 3 Type 54 pistols. Since firearms are not normally used, the Security Section has not even found them. It wasn't until more than a month after the loss of the gun that the public security organs cracked another case, shunto touched the melon, and returned the gun to the company, that the security section found that its gun was actually lost. Such cases are not unique cases, but can be seen everywhere throughout the country.
Later, stealing guns is already a criminal with a "conscience", and people who have no heart simply kill people and take guns. Four gangsters in Hegang City, armed with guns, broke into the duty room of the Coal Mine Security Section, killed 9 cadres of the Security Section, 9 economic policemen, and 1 child, snatched away 3 5454 pistols, and then lit explosive packs, set fire to extinguish the traces, and then fled.
In Beijing in 1996, a man named Bai Baoshan went crazy. In March, he wounded an armed police officer on duty and snatched a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle. In April, he shot at the sentry at the armored corps headquarters, but did not succeed; a few days later, he killed a sentry at the Bayi shooting range in Fengtai District; in July, he returned to his hometown of Xushui, Hebei Province, and shot the sentry in the ammunition depot of a division of the People's Liberation Army, killing two dead and one wounded, snatching a Type 81 automatic rifle; in December, he returned to Beijing and shot and killed a female stall owner at a tobacco and alcohol store in Deshengmen, snatching more than 60,000 yuan in cash and injuring 3 passers-by.
White Treasure Mountain
When Bai Baoshan and Lu Xianzhou committed the crime, it was during the "two sessions" in 1996 that a number of people's congress deputies and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference made speeches calling for the rectification of public order. Thus, the second "strike hard" began. This is the largest concentrated crackdown in history, focusing on serious criminal cases such as serious violent crimes, hooligan crimes, gun-related crimes, drug crimes, hooligan evil forces crimes, and crimes of a triad nature. At the same time, the strictest gun prohibition regulations have been adopted to collect all types of firearms and ammunition throughout the country.
The Beijing police still have two people to arrest, that is, Lu Xianzhou and Bai Baoshan.
Lu Xianzhou's case was solved quite quickly. The police noticed that he had a habit of changing a new car every time he grabbed the bank. Just when someone in Haidian District reported that a beige Nissan sedan had been stolen. The police judged that this car is likely to be the tool for Lu Xianzhou's next crime, so the city investigated, the masses reported, found the car after the police ambushed, and caught Lu Xianzhou after a gun battle.
But Bai Baoshan was arrested and brought to justice for a long time. Because he felt that Beijing was too dangerous, he simply fled back to the Shihezi farm in Xinjiang, where he had once been re-educated, and killed 12 more people along the way, including accomplices, businessmen, policemen, students who saw righteousness and courage, innocent passers-by, and so on. At that time, it was not as nationally connected as it is now, and it took a long time for the Xinjiang police to link the case to Beijing. On September 7, 1997, Bai Baoshan was finally arrested, and at this time, even the strike-hard crackdown had ended for more than half a year.
Public security officers interrogate Lu Xianzhou on a hospital bed
In the 1996 crackdown, more than 90,000 criminal gangs alone were destroyed nationwide, more than 420,000 gang members were arrested, and more than 30,000 lawbreakers and criminals surrendered themselves. In just 4, 5 and 6 months, 75 police officers were sacrificed nationwide, and more than 2,800 people were injured, including 266 seriously injured.
In this round of strike hard in 1996, the biggest result was undoubtedly gun control. Since then, the people no longer have the right to bear guns, and only a very small number of herders have been approved to carry shotguns for self-defense. All local units and institutions disqualified them from holding guns, and even veteran Red Army cadres handed over guns that they had collected for many years. At that time, only one province in Henan province had confiscated 1.6 million guns, and only 2.8 million legal guns were registered nationwide.
The seizure of firearms alone does not achieve the desired effect. The reason why guns are widespread in the United States is because all gun ban movements have been stirred up by arms dealer capitalists, and the American judicial community is still arguing to this day about whether gun manufacturers should be held accountable for crimes.
The United States can't figure out the source, but it won't be a problem in China. We have closed all legal gun sales sites, closed all legal civilian gun production lines, either to produce other products or simply to eliminate them; and at the same time punish illegal gun workshops with severe punishment.
1996 Guangzhou Public Trial Conference
Of course, the 1996 strike hard was not perfect. At that time, in order to be efficient, the public security, procuratorate, and law cooperated closely, with public security investigation as the main force, focusing on "cracking major cases, cracking down on gangs, and pursuing fugitives." Procuratorates and courts intervened in the investigation in advance, "reading the pre-trial archives, familiarizing themselves with the investigation process, and ensuring that after accepting a case, they can promptly file a public prosecution and hold a trial," in order to quickly approve arrests, prosecute quickly, and try quickly. Although this practice improves efficiency, it also increases the possibility of unjust and wrongful cases.
However, on the whole, the effect of this strike-hard crackdown was immediate. Law and order in China began to improve rapidly. The vicious case of large-scale road blocking and killing of drivers is gone, and the overbearing underworld has disappeared.
It is true that strike hard does not really solve the real core of the problem of public order, that is, employment, economic development, and education level. But without such tough short-term measures, poor policing can in turn drag down economic development, because who would invest in a place where banks are frequently snapped? If the economy does not develop, public order will further deteriorate, and eventually a vicious circle will be formed.
After this round of strike-hard in 1996 passed, China soon ushered in a golden stage of development, with an economic growth rate that maintained the highest level in the world all year round, a steady increase in social employment, a great improvement in material life, and a gradual enrichment of the spiritual world. In 2008, the nine-year compulsory education was officially implemented free of charge, and some developed areas also began to implement 12 years of free education. Correspondingly, vicious homicides and violent crimes have been greatly reduced. Girls dare to go out shopping at ten o'clock at night without worrying about threats to their lives and property. This is unimaginable in most countries around the world.
Today's Chinese have long forgotten that era of chaos and thought that China should be so safe by nature. Now some people on the Internet are yin and yang weird about the strict gun ban policy, posing a posture of "holding a gun equals freedom", and feel that they should learn from the United States to let go of guns. As everyone knows, even the Americans themselves do not believe that they can overthrow the "tyranny" with the rifle in their hands, and they do not believe that the rifle can bring them a happy life.
Don't take today's security environment for granted. On February 8, 2018, the Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security released a set of figures: In the past five years, public security organs in various localities have confiscated a total of 1.012 million illegal firearms, 56.61 million rounds of ammunition, 14.772 million kilograms of explosives, and 31.389 million detonators.
Can you imagine? After 20 years of banning guns, under such strict laws, so many weapons can be captured, if gun control is relaxed, then is it not necessary to perform a crotch mine every three to five years?
With the development of society, the "strike hard" governance method will eventually become history. But we must remember that order is the prerequisite for the development of all civilizations, and all order is based on the constraints on individuals, and the cost of losing order will be borne by the whole society. This is probably the biggest enlightenment brought to us by the two strikes hard.
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