57 Dark Tide (2)
The city wall of Jingjiang City will increase in height every day, and after the completion of the city wall, a city wall system with an average height of no less than 10 meters is formed that surrounds the whole city.
This city wall takes high-rise buildings as the fulcrum, reinforced concrete walls as the backbone, and steel skeleton color steel walls as supplements, especially the latter, which occupies a very high proportion in the entire construction process, and nearly half of the walls are color steel structures.
The color steel structure seems to be fragile, in fact, under the coordination of the Jingjiang Municipal Government, all the color steel walls are strengthened skeleton, and in the open space behind the wall, a large number of steel bars are buried obliquely pointing at the head of the wall.
As long as the giant mantis crosses the wall, it will inevitably be pierced by sharpened steel bars when it lands, while humans can move freely between the steel bars.
Even so, the citizens of Gyeonggang were still not at ease, and they tried to arm themselves in every way, the most obvious point was that the sales of spirits and gasoline in the city were unprecedentedly hot, and everyone bought these two liquids not for use, but for homemade Molotov. cocktail for self-defense in the event of a giant insect attack.
Clever townspeople used their wits to Molotov. Cocktails have undergone various DIY modifications, adding white sugar rubber like in the novel is just common, there are not a few people who add laundry detergent and toilet cleaners, and even plastic pieces and rag heads have been added, and I don't know what the use of adding these things is.
For a time, it was fashionable to bring homemade incendiary pop-up doors, and in just three days, the city confiscated more than 700 homemade incendiary bombs of various types.
Although the homemade incendiary bomb is hand-made, the power of this thing is not small at all, and if you accidentally ignite it on your body, the consequences will be unimaginable.
In order to curb the trend of homemade incendiary bombs, the police conducted a comprehensive publicity campaign throughout the city to persuade the public not to make and carry incendiary bombs so as not to endanger personal safety.
However, some citizens still go their own way, preferring to carry incendiary bombs with them as safety hazards.
The idea of the citizens is very simple, with incendiary bombs, even if they encounter giant insects, they can die together, otherwise there will only be a tragic death of insects, and every man who still has a little bit of blood knows how to choose.
At the same time, some members of the public, while opposing the ban on incendiary bombs, questioned the police on the issue of people's self-defense.
The police are also scratching their heads on this issue, the people have an urgent need for self-defense, this is an objective reality that no one can solve, but how can we meet the people's need for self-defense?
Knives certainly won't solve the problem, issue guns to everyone? Or do you give each two grenades?
The city government organized many meetings with the police, and did not come up with a specific implementation plan, but since the Jinghu incident was exposed, the social situation in Jingjiang City has not been very stable, and the sense of crisis among ordinary citizens is unprecedentedly serious.
The city's leading bodies taken together cannot afford to bear the responsibility for such serious consequences, and it can be said that this problem has reached a point where it cannot but be solved.
The culmination of the meeting was to make a detailed report to the superiors and ask the superiors to try to solve the problem.
The Jingjiang municipal government did not know that due to the attack of giant insects in many places, the whole country was far more than the only place in Jingjiang that reported similar situations, and the northern capital had launched a secret discussion on the issue a few days ago.
After three days of heated debate, the Northern Capital issued a notice to the whole country to open the gun ban on a limited basis.
The circular clearly pointed out that the limited opening of the gun ban is an urgent need to combat the intensifying attack of giant insects and protect the safety of people's lives and property, and all localities must strictly control and prevent guns and ammunition from getting out of control.
Accompanying the notice are the detailed rules for the implementation of gun control, which stipulate that applicants for gun possession must be citizens at least 28 years old and have no criminal record; No bad habits; No violent tendencies, no social contradictions; No psychiatric problems; Have a regular income; Have a normal family; have fixed assets; Those who have good self-control ability and have urgent self-defense needs in the epidemic area, and meet the requirements for holding a gun after review by the relevant departments, can apply for a firearm.
Applicants for firearms must participate in a three-day training on the use of firearms, and can only be issued a firearm license after passing the examination.
The rules also stipulate that the age of public officials may be relaxed to 26 years of age, and that of retired active personnel may be relaxed to 22 years of age.
Each of the provisions of the by-laws is an insurmountable bar, and all conditions must be met in order to be eligible to apply for firearms.
The detailed rules also stipulate that the first batch of firearms to be opened is only one model of double-barreled shotgun, and the guns must not be concealed and carried, the guns must not be carried out of the place of residence, the barrels must not be sawed short, the guns must not be pointed at people under any circumstances, and the firearms must be handed over to a designated place for storage when entering and leaving public places or sensitive areas such as banks, shopping malls, and large supermarkets.
There are also deep considerations for opening only double-barreled shotguns, firstly, this thing is a kind of shotgun, which only needs to be roughly aimed to hit the target, which is very easy for ordinary people who have not undergone systematic shooting training; Second, this gun is powerful enough, and with the right bullets, it can effectively penetrate the carapace of the giant insect; Thirdly, the effective firing range of this gun is mostly about 50 meters, which is far from being comparable with military rifles with a range of more than 400 meters.
All in all, such guns are not a threat to the state apparatus at the disposal of military weapons.
Although the gun ban is opened, it is not easy to get a gun, from a certain point of view, it can even be said that the open gun ban is just a super cake branded in Beidu, and there are very few people who are qualified to take a bite, and the vast majority of people can only look at it.
The means are not new, they are nothing more than political means to win over a group of people and then suppress a group of people.
Early the next morning after the notice was issued, citizens who applied for guns lined up outside the Jingjiang City Police Station, and the queue continued to grow, and soon it broke through the 1,000-person mark, and the application form was sent to the police station like snowflakes.
However, regardless of whether or not the application conditions are met, the police station will answer that they will go home and wait for a notice.
It is not that the police are perfunctory, but that the police need enough time to mobilize firearms, but fortunately, there is no technical difficulty in the design and production of double-barreled shotguns, and the military factories that received the production tasks have produced a large number of double-barreled shotguns and corresponding ammunition in a very short time, and they have been quickly sent to all parts of the country.