On a Friday morning in August, a fourteen-year-old boy in Nonthaburi, Thailand, carried his grandfather's firearm first into a family home and then into a school, leaving seven people dead before taking his own life. The act has reopened a wound that Thailand has struggled to close since a mass shooting four years prior — a nation where civilian gun ownership is the highest in Southeast Asia now confronts, once again, the human cost of that distinction. A Prime Minister's grief and a legislative promise hang in the air, as a country searches for the words to explain what drove a quiet, studiou
Thai teen kills 7 in school shooting; PM vows stricter gun laws
Seven people killed: the shooter's two grandparents and five school staff members. The 14-year-old shooter died by suicide after police found him on the fourth floor.