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There has been a horrific mass killing in Thailand today. From a gun control perspective we must remember that vulnerable groups of children are found not only in schools but also creches, park playgrounds and sports teams. If society arms teachers then you'd also have to arm sports coaching staff and child minders. I view such a policy as being mistaken. In rural primary schools there might only be two teachers inside which will limit their ability to provide counterfire. Furthermore some teachers are elderly. Men and women are equally able to teach but biologically women tend to have less upper body strength. As such a policy that forces teachers to provide security assistance could lead to gender discrimination in hiring teachers. Secondary school or tertiary students might have limited self-awareness for carrying non-lethal weaponry. Although arming preschool children at montessori with any blunt weapon at all would be completely futile, dangerous and next to impossible.
"A former policeman killed 34 people, including 23 children, during a knife and gun rampage at a daycare centre in northeast Thailand today, police said, before later shooting dead his wife and child at home and turning his weapon on himself.
In one of the world's worst child death tolls in a massacre by a single killer in recent history, most of the children who died at the daycare centre in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 km northeast of Bangkok, were stabbed to death, police said...
The age range of children at the daycare centre was from two to five years, a local official told Reuters...
Police said the attacker's weapon was a 9 mm pistol and it had been obtained legally...
Gun laws are strict in Thailand, where possession of an illegal firearm carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Illegal weapons, many brought in from strife-torn neighbouring countries, are common.
Mass shootings in Thailand remain rare, although in 2020, a soldier* angry over a property deal gone sour killed at least 29 people and wounded 57 in a rampage that spanned four locations."
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/1006/1327467-thailand/
*"A mass shooting occurred near and in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, colloquially known as Korat, between 8 and 9 February 2020. A soldier of the Royal Thai Army killed 29 people and wounded 58 others before he was eventually shot and killed... The perpetrator then stole military weapons and a Humvee and drove to the Terminal 21 Korat shopping mall, which had a large number of shoppers due to the public holiday Magha Puja, where he opened fire on shoppers." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhon_Ratchasima_shootings
"A former policeman killed 34 people, including 23 children, during a knife and gun rampage at a daycare centre in northeast Thailand today, police said, before later shooting dead his wife and child at home and turning his weapon on himself.
In one of the world's worst child death tolls in a massacre by a single killer in recent history, most of the children who died at the daycare centre in Uthai Sawan, a town 500 km northeast of Bangkok, were stabbed to death, police said...
The age range of children at the daycare centre was from two to five years, a local official told Reuters...
Police said the attacker's weapon was a 9 mm pistol and it had been obtained legally...
Gun laws are strict in Thailand, where possession of an illegal firearm carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Illegal weapons, many brought in from strife-torn neighbouring countries, are common.
Mass shootings in Thailand remain rare, although in 2020, a soldier* angry over a property deal gone sour killed at least 29 people and wounded 57 in a rampage that spanned four locations."
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/1006/1327467-thailand/
*"A mass shooting occurred near and in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, colloquially known as Korat, between 8 and 9 February 2020. A soldier of the Royal Thai Army killed 29 people and wounded 58 others before he was eventually shot and killed... The perpetrator then stole military weapons and a Humvee and drove to the Terminal 21 Korat shopping mall, which had a large number of shoppers due to the public holiday Magha Puja, where he opened fire on shoppers." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhon_Ratchasima_shootings
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