News Forum - Gun laws in Thailand to be discussed by House committee

[Viggen840]

41 minutes ago, Cabra said:

As it seems they (police and military) are the usual perpetrators of gun violence.

Well picked! It seems almost every time there is gun trauma over here that it is either a former Military or Police member 'with drug and mental problems' who is the protagonist. Says a lot about their recruitment and ongoing psychological screening of candidates... or says nothing at all, really.

[longwood50]

On 10/9/2022 at 6:55 AM, Tim_Melb said:

If they want to achieve something they need to announce a government gun buy back like Australia did after the Port Arthur incident

There is a perfect correlation between movies that Nicholas Cage appeared in and drowning.  That is a "correlation" and not a causation.  The same is true with the buy back of guns in Australia and gun deaths.  The fact that Australia has low gun violence says more about its people than it does of the law. 

Consider, Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership and almost no violence.  So it certainly disproves that gun ownership and gun ownership laws are the reason why certain nations have low firearms deaths.  By contrast in Mexico it is almost impossible to "legally" own a gun.  Only 1 legal guns store in the entire country and that is on a military base in Mexico City where it takes months to legally obtain a gun.  How has that worked out?  Well Mexico had 33,000 firearms fatalities last year.  So how did those restrictions on gun ownership work out. 

In the USA if you removed the major urban areas such as Chicago, Detroit, New York, New Orleans, etc the remainder of the USA would have one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world.  Same country, same laws, but different people with different standards about obeying the law. 

Same here in Thailand.  It is already illegal to obtain fentanyl, heroin, coccaine, meth and a number of other drugs.  How has that worked out?  Is there any shortage of those drugs?  People bent on violence will find a way to acquire a gun and if a gun is not available will choose another method to inflict deaths on others.  If the person had padlocked the school and set it on fire, would there be a call to ban padlocks or outlaw fire?  If the person had obtained cylinders of LPG and placed them in the school and ignited them, would there be a call to ban LPG cylinders.  Timothy McVeigh in the USA blew up a building and killed 168 people using a truck, fertilizer and diesel fuel.  

I saw today three deaths on motorcycles in Pattaya.  Over the course of a year there will be far more deaths on motorcycles in this city alone than were killed by this lunatic gunmen.  But will there be any attention to curb those senseless deaths that some enforcement of existing speeding and helmet laws could help diminish.  No.  They will continue to focus on the crime that received the most news coverage rather than focus on actions that would save the most lives.