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Posted on 08/17/2026 7:00:05 AM PDT by marktwain
On August 7, 2026, a 14-year-old Thai student murdered his grandparents, took his grandfather’s legally registered handgun, and carried it to Debsirin Nonthaburi School outside Bangkok. He killed six people at the school and wounded 23 before shooting himself. Eight victims were killed in all. The Thai government has now suspended firearm-purchase permits, ordered a review of existing licenses, and called for harsher restrictions.
In July of 2025, a mass murderer killed five people and then committed suicide at a Bangkok market.
Thailand had imposed even more restrictions on its already restrictive gun control measures in 2023. In 2023, a 14-year-old killed two and wounded five in a shopping center in Bangkok. In 2022, a former police officer killed 36 people, including his wife, his son, and 22 children. The former police officer used a gun and a knife. In 2020, a soldier killed 29 people in a mass murder with a gun in Nakhon Ratchasima.
It was not always so. In 1947, mandatory registration, licensing, and permits for civilian ownership were instituted. Licensing for self-defense is relatively common in rural areas.
Self-defense is considered a legitimate reason to apply for a firearm permit. Carry permits for public areas are difficult to obtain. The Small Arms Survey estimated that Thai civilians possessed 10.34 million firearms in 2017, about 15.1 firearms per 100 residents. Ammunition ownership is tightly regulated. Reloading ammunition is banned. Resistance to the strict laws is common. Approximately 6.22 million were registered, and 4.12 million were estimated to be unregistered. Thailand has an estimated total firearms-related death rate of about 4 per 100K population. The homicide rate with firearms is about 1 per 100K
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In Idaho recently an idiot with mass murder obviously his intent was prevented from a killing a large number of people by armed citizens. Somehow this story which didn’t fit the narrative was flushed down the media memory hole almost immediately. No one I have asked about it in the Puget Sound region had any idea what I was even talking about.
Nothing like blaming the innocent for what criminals or the insane do. Glad I don’t live there.
I fully understand the situation and do not blame Thailand for tightening gun laws. I mean, after all, that nasty handgun persuaded the teen to just shoot the grandparents. Then that mean old handgun just went on to force the poor victim kid to shoot others.
24 shots from a handgun?
This cure is always worse than the disease. A nut job with a gun cannot kill anywhere near what a nut job ruling a country can. Iran is the latest example of that .
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