Thailand shooting: Many children among dead in pre-school attack

[malaise]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63155169?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
An ex-policeman has killed at least 34 people, most of them children, in a gun and knife attack at a pre-school daycare centre in north-east Thailand.

Police say he then killed himself and his family after a manhunt following the attack in Nong Bua Lamphu province.

Children and adults are among the casualties at the nursery - police say the attacker shot and stabbed his victims before fleeing the scene.

The former officer, aged 34, was sacked last year for drug use, police said
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Heard that 30 of the dead are children - no words

[Elessar Zappa]

1. Oh no!

Devastated to read this. The world has gone mad.

[malaise]

3. Stark raving mad

Don’t you dare fire me or else.
Indict me or else?

[MiHale]

2. ...

[Scrivener7]

4. I always feel like it is our own evil that we have exported when I hear these stories happening

in other countries.

Those poor families. My heart breaks for them.

[LuvLoogie]

5. I feel the same way.

We really need to reclaim the civil liberties that the Right has been eliminating in our country. I think that the only long-term counter to violent, toxic masculinity is to make sure women have equal footing in societies across the planet.

[Scrivener7]

6. I think, if you dig into causations far enough, you are absolutely right.

At first I was thinking, no, just rein in the guns, but of course the need for some men to do their attempts at hyper-masculinity through gun-nut cosplay comes ultimately from a need to control women - and POC - which would be moot if we all had equal rights.

[calimary]

8. It's definitely an "American disease."

I’d bet that’s where these shooters get their ideas. There’s ALWAYS plenty of coverage, including international.

[Scrivener7]

19. Absolutely. That's how it proliferated here. Gun worship, toxic masculinity and

entitlement spreading through our media. And nowadays, media is global.

[Kali]

12. there is plenty wrong with the US but random acts of mass violence have been with humans

FAR longer than this country has existed

[Straw Man]

18. Exactly.

Mad, mindless violence has been part of the package for as long our species has existed. Social structures have evolved partly as a means to rein it in.

[Scrivener7]

20. Sure, Kali Multiple daily mass shootings in the US. Nothing new. Nothing to see here.

[Kali]

21. violence or mass killings are not exclusive to the US or to modern times.

just a fact.

[AllyCat]

7. German news saying 36 dead.

[malaise]

14. He went home killed his wife, child

And himself. Now hearing 38 with many more injured.

[dewsgirl]

9. How awful, no words.

[niyad]

10. . . .

[irisblue]

11. This has to be ripping up the hearts of the American parents who have lost kids to guns.

[onecaliberal]

13. :

[gixxerlee]

15. Wow

That is just horrific...loss for words.

[lpbk2713]

16. Sickening.

You can be sure some media outlets are fighting for photos of this.

[Sympthsical]

17. Similar happened in Russia recently

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63032790