Thailand mass shooting 35 dead including 24 children

[philip964]

https://nypost.com/2022/10/06/thailand- ... re-centre/

Former police officer convicted of drug charges went on a rampage at a nursery school killing 35. RIP.

Went home and killed his family including himself.

Thailand has very strict gun laws. Each gun is licensed, a gun safty course must be taken and you must pass a strict background check including mental evaluation.
Tourists cannot possess a gun.

[Acronym Esq]

That article was really hard to read. Just horrific. The gun laws worked by reducing the number of people shot. From the article:

The shooter came in around lunchtime and shot four or five officials at the childcare center ... then forced his way into a locked room where children were sleeping and hacked them to death ... He also ran his vehicle into a crowd of bystanders ... rammed a motorbike and two people were injured ...

The only person who needed to be shot had to do it himself.

acronym 10/6/2022 11:25 AM

[AF-Odin]

Heard about this on the radio this morning. Talk about burying the lead; started out by stating that "yet again" there has been another mass shooting of children at a school. Thirty five dead including 25 children. They ended with this occurred in Thailand.

[03Lightningrocks]

https://nypost.com/2022/10/06/thailand- ... re-centre/

Tourists cannot possess a gun.

How would a tourist even get a gun into the country. Isn't the only access by airplane? You would never get a firearm through the security checks.

[Grayling813]

Restrictive Thailand Gun Laws Useless at Preventing Massacre
https://www.ammoland.com/2022/10/restri ... -massacre/

“A former policeman killed 34 people, including 23 children, during a knife and gun rampage at a daycare center in northeast Thailand on Thursday, police said, before later shooting dead his wife and child at home and turning his weapon on himself,” Reuters reports. “Police said the attacker’s weapon was a 9 mm pistol, and it had been obtained legally.”

What does that mean, in Thailand, to obtain a weapon legally?

“Gun laws are strict in Thailand, where possession of an illegal firearm carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years,” the report notes.

How strict?

“The regulation of guns in Thailand is categorized as restrictive,” GunPolicy.org, a project of the Sydney School of Public Health advises. “In Thailand, the right to private gun ownership is not guaranteed by law.”

Handgun, rifle, and shotgun purchasers have to overcome several prior restraints, including proving they have a “genuine reason” for the license needed to obtain a firearm and its ammunition (one license per gun). They must pass a “universal background check” that includes “income” among its. And there are “red flag” disqualifiers like “domestic violence …

“In Thailand, the law requires that a record of the acquisition, possession, and transfer of each privately held firearm be retained in an official register,” GunPolicy.org continues. Thailand also imposes storage laws and transit laws. Open carry is banned, and if a citizen wants to carry concealed, they must “apply for permission to carry a firearm … to the officials who are competent to issue such license.”

It sounds like everything Brady United, Everytown/Moms, and Giffords and the Democrats are demanding here, doesn’t it? “Commonsense gun safety”…?

[K.Mooneyham]

https://nypost.com/2022/10/06/thailand- ... re-centre/

Tourists cannot possess a gun.

How would a tourist even get a gun into the country. Isn't the only access by airplane? You would never get a firearm through the security checks.

From what I gather, the northern border is fairly porous, and lots of people and stuff get across all the time.

[03Lightningrocks]

https://nypost.com/2022/10/06/thailand- ... re-centre/

Tourists cannot possess a gun.

How would a tourist even get a gun into the country. Isn't the only access by airplane? You would never get a firearm through the security checks.

From what I gather, the northern border is fairly porous, and lots of people and stuff get across all the time.

Interesting.