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You're wrong about Thailand's gun laws.
Anyone here, other than a foreigner and minor, can get a licence from the police and buy a hand gun, shotgun or rifle. The official line is the familiar one that you are allowed to protect your home so not everyone can carry a gun legally in his car. But they do, of course.
A Thai national can walk into a gun shop, order a gun take the order document to the police and, within a day or two, collect the licence and gun. Remember also that this is a country where an offer of 'tea money' can make many obstacles disappear. If someone comes onto our land my wife could shoot them dead. If they threatened her, I could legally pick up her gun and shoot then dead. A lot of private land here isn't fenced and a lot of men who have worked in the fields all day tend to drink a bit too much and take the shortest room home on foot in the dark. You get the picture?
Contract killings are easy to arrange here because the killer just needs a gun, a motorbike with no licence plate and a helmet with a visor. There are no requirements for secure gun storage and so there are many stolen guns around. You don't get involved in road rage because the idiot who cut you up may be carrying a gun.
One problem with civilian gun ownership, especially hand guns, is that the result of using it is often quick and final. Someone gets angry, out comes a gun and that's it before he can think properly about what he's doing. Fists, knives and rocks usually don't kill at the first blow. The victim has some chance to defend himself and Mr. Angry might just calm down. I'm not anti-gun and I accept that there is a case for some people to own one. However, lax gun laws inevitably lead to weapons getting into the wrong hands.
To the pro's I say that you have to accept that their are different points of view on this subject and not everyone agrees with lax gun laws. In other words, there is an important debate going on that's reflected in this thread. I think that you would help your cause if you considered more carefully the points of view of other people. We have a saying in England; the reed that won't bend will eventually snap in the wind. In other words, give way a little and you will have your guns. Keep resisting rational objections to lax laws and one day you will lose your guns.
