Interior Min to review gun owners’ qualifications in response to Nong Bua Lamphu shooting

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - High-level officials of the Ministry of Interior have met to discuss lessons learned from Thursday’s mass shooting in Nong Bua Lamphu. The officials have ordered a review of weapons owners’ qualifications and a revocation of permits issued to disqualified gun owners.

 

Interior Ministry Permanent Secretary Sutthipong Juljarern held a meeting with senior ministry officials to discuss the lessons learned from the Nong Bua Lamphu mass shooting. The officials agreed to review narcotics prevention efforts and re-examine individuals in risk groups, civil servants, and other state officials. More narcotic users will be brought in for rehabilitation. Community checkpoints will be intensified while provincial and district administrative organizations will give more support to anti-narcotic activities. Campaigning will also be jointly made with partner organizations to discourage people from associating with drugs.

 

The meeting stressed a re-examination of gun owners’ qualifications. If qualifications are lacking, gun permits will be revoked immediately. Officials also agreed to consider increasing security at childcare centers run by local administrative bodies. This may take the form of posting guards at the centers and installation of CCTV cameras.

 

Bangkok police deputy chief Nithithon Chintakanon said 90% of police officers need a permit to carry a gun for work. He said police commanders will now be asked to check whether their subordinates qualify for gun carriage. Meetings will also be held to determine whether discharged police officers will be allowed to continue owning their guns.

 

Pol. Maj. Gen. Nithithon said the perpetrator of Thursday’s incident was screened normally when he was enrolled into the police force. He said the man’s duties related to narcotics and this may have caused him to use drugs. Metropolitan Police Bureau superintendents will now inspect their subordinates for narcotic use. If drug use is found, the officer in question will be fired and their behavior will be monitored to prevent a recurrence of this week’s tragedy.

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG221007205950884

 

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[blackcab]

 

[harleyclarkey]

I presume the police are top of his list?? 

[Bim Smith]

Reading about this maniac the problem isn't gun ownership or the amount it's the fact this guy got away with it for too long and the Police did nothing. Eventually sacking him when he should have been in jail. Lets not forget he used mainly knives not guns. It was a gun he eventually killed himself with. Shame he didn't do it sooner 

[RichardColeman]

Good luck getting them all back from the million that do not qualify ! 

[nobodysfriend]

9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The officials have ordered a review of weapons owners’ qualifications and a revocation of permits issued to disqualified gun owners.

Most privately owned guns in Thailand are illegal ones .

[ThaiFelix]

The RTP specialises in crazies, they employ crazies, they train crazies, they protect crazies.......thats the lesson that should be learned from all this!

[mikebell]

9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The officials have ordered a review of weapons owners’ qualifications

Locking the barn door after the horse has bolted.  Typically Thai; reactive not proactive.

[Chosenfew]

Love my Glock and shoot it once a month. Keep it locked and loaded…

[Expat68]

57 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

Most privately owned guns in Thailand are illegal ones .

Black Market, cheap and easy. That is the real problem 

[Foghorn]

Too many crazy /bad people have guns , so let everyone have a gun and it will even the score 

[koele2]

It’s all a show with these guys.  All they care about is who they get money from and who to give money to.  There is a reason why that cop was transferred to the boonies rather than fired outright for all the problems he caused.  On top of why he was even hired in the first place.

[Robin]

Enforcement will be the problem, as always with the RTP.  Make as many laws as you like, so that will sound good, but if they are not enforced, pointless.

So every Thai with an illegal gun is going to meekly surrender it?

[roo860]

2 hours ago, Chosenfew said:

Love my Glock and shoot it once a month. Keep it locked and loaded…

In Thailand?

[CM Dad]

2 hours ago, Chosenfew said:

Love my Glock and shoot it once a month. Keep it locked and loaded…

Your Glock does not increase your endowment.

[finnomick1]

So what does the Minister of the Interior propose ? Maybe send a delegation to a country that takes firearm licensing and ownership seriously ? All theoretically good but this would fail at the first stumbling block, or in this case, a trip up on the brown envelope.

Legal possession of a firearm in this country is relatively simple if you are prepared to go through the paperwork and meetings. The actual license is farcical,  handwritten  and no photo. Purchase of firearm is also easy with said farcical license. Note, government employees get their firearms at half price. No check is made of the premises where the firearm is to be registered, nor is there any requirement for a cabinet to be used with the normal procedures, I.e. made of a certain grade steel with a certain type of lock and fixed to a substantial wall with security bolts.

If all this is so relatively simple, what does that say about illegally purchased firearms or even the handmade ones ? 

[Ginner]

11 hours ago, blackcab said:

 

They need to review their own mentality first. Nealy ALL the shootings that have taken place over the last 10 years have been perpetrated by  Police officers or soldiers. Who are allowed access to all kinds of weapons as part of their occupation.

[Aussieroaming]

The RTP are using drugs as an excuse for a random act, which they couldn't foresee or act upon.

 

The reality is that this was pre-planned because he took numerous weapons to that pre-school, which shows he planned his actions.

 

He had already been dismissed from the police force for drug offenses, so why wasn't his firearm license revoked earlier and his weapons confiscated.

 

 

[biggles45]

Revoking the gun licence will change nothing. Check point stops have shown a big percentage of drivers are unlicensed.... doesn't stop them driving tho. 

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

High-level officials of the Ministry of Interior have met to discuss lessons learned from Thursday’s mass shooting in Nong Bua Lamphu. The officials have ordered a review of weapons owners’ qualifications and a revocation of permits issued to disqualified gun owners

I did read that right... right?

[mjakob007]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The officials have ordered a review of weapons owners’ qualifications and a revocation of permits issued to disqualified gun owners

review - does not mean any change.

it can be reviewed and shelfed to continue status quo...

[mjakob007]

4 hours ago, ThaiFelix said:

The RTP specialises in crazies, they employ crazies, they train crazies, they protect crazies.......thats the lesson that should be learned from all this!

Above  sums it all up.

 

half the state beneficiaries are in service, expelled or retired. so a self serving clique who cares nothing about public or service.

[arick]

He was a cop! Hello 

[arick]

I thnk  it was a knife 

[vivananahuahin]

A sword in the water

[CM Dad]

If he was a known drug addict who was also known to be prone to violence, why wasn't he in either a treatment facility or prison?

[StevieAus]

On 10/8/2022 at 7:23 AM, ThaiFelix said:

The RTP specialises in crazies, they employ crazies, they train crazies, they protect crazies.......thats the lesson that should be learned from all this!

That seems to fit the description of some of the American police forces and a few others around the world. 

Unfortunately the job seems to attract those sort of people and these days I cannot understand why a sane person would  want the job. 

[djayz]

Some how I just don't think "qualifications" when thinking about Thailand, the people in general or any of its institutes. It all looks good from the outside, but the content tends to be a completely different story. 

[metisdead]

Off topic posts and replies about the US and the UK have been removed.

[Bday Prang]

So now they will test all the cops for drugs , and those that fail will be sacked and monitored,

Assuming that some actually pass, they are going to be very busy, monitoring those that didn't !  Who will do any policework ? I see a recruitment drive looming, might be an Idea to test the new recruits before they waste time "training" them