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The dreadful shooting incident that happened yesterday at Siam paragon shopping mall, located in the center of Bangkok, Thailand, has sent a signal of risks threatening Thailand’s governmental stability, tourism, and economy.

 

The shooting resulted in two foreigners killed, one Chinese, one Burmese, and five people were injured.

 

Local shoppers and foreigners are still in fright and they have been expressing their concerns over the country’s law of gun ownership and safety protection in general.

 

On social media, people urged the government to invest in developing the SMS emergency alert technology for Thai citizens and tourists and strengthening control about gun ownership laws and legal punishments for criminals under the age of eighteen years old.

 

by Kanlayakorn Pengrattana

 

Full story: ScandAsia 2023-10-04

 

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It is terrible and world wide news.

 

What are the reprocussions for the malls business?  Don't certain cultures avoid going to places where people have been killed? Ghosts, etc.

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Local shoppers and foreigners are still in fright and they have been expressing their concerns over the country’s law of gun ownership and safety protection in general.

 

It was not a real gun. It was a blank firing starting pistol freely available on Lazarda and Shopee for 5,000-7,000 baht, modified to fire real bullets. 

 

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7 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

Local shoppers and foreigners are still in fright and they have been expressing their concerns over the country’s law of gun ownership and safety protection in general.

 

It was not a real gun. It was a blank firing starting pistol freely available on Lazarda and Shopee for 5,000-7,000 baht, modified to fire real bullets. 

 

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Thats not a starter pistol....  Thats a Replica gun which fires blanks. 

 

These are starter pistols. 

 

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31 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

Are we going to see a knee-jerk reaction from Authorities banning first person shoot'em'up computer games ?????

He practiced at a well known military owned range in Bangkok where he may also have purchased ammunition and taken some home.  Should that range be closed too? 

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Thailands tourism is in a gargantuan downturn and it is not coming back either.  

This isnt rocket science.  

For those that think this is nothing this is huge.  When tourists get killed by a random shooting it affects numbers pure and simple.  

In the meantime, I'll let the usual drivel come out of official news sources about how things are fine.

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Come on  Thailand….not only is this ‘shooting’ appalling….

 

but, how ‘farang dong…!

 

is that all you know how to do….copy America…? Get a brain, show some imagination. Show some creativity. Why is everything you do ‘monkey see, monkey do’…?  Copy, copy, copy, and poorly at that. 
 

This is not only tragic, but will now open the floodgates to some other limited thinkers to follow suit. 
 

This is a cultural issue. The kid is just a ‘symptom’, but you are the problem.

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Should be automatic detention of at least 2yrs no ifs or buts to anybody breaking the gun laws, having illegal guns/bullets, and registered guns carried in cars etc. or waved around, + further sentencing on the circumstances involved.

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An isolated shooting incident by a mentally ill teen 'risks governmental stability'?  What rot.  Possibly a temporary blip on tourism but that's about it.

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7 minutes ago, Shetraveler said:

My home country needs to try harder, they're number 2.
Well, that could explain a lot.

Not sure, good or bad, but suicides outnumber homicides

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On 10/4/2023 at 12:44 PM, bkk6060 said:

It is terrible and world wide news.

 

What are the reprocussions for the malls business?  Don't certain cultures avoid going to places where people have been killed? Ghosts, etc.

Yes, You are correct. Most certainly the mall business will be less for a short time. However, you can guarantee the mall will perform some type of buddhist ceremony to get any specters out of their mall... It will be well advertise as well to assure prospective consumers that they will not see any ghosts there. Haha.. silly but then i have seen it happen in a school where the elevator repairman fell into the shaft and died.. Within a month they closed half the school to perform their stupid rituals for this. 

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The Erawan Shrine bombing killed 22 innocent people and injured over 100 others in 2015 and the tourist numbers kept increasing until Covid hit. 

 

Same general area, too.

 

This event, tragic as it was, will be a flash in the pan.

 

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Again a day has passed in Thailand and 50 people died in traffic and that every day !

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