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Facebook gun dealers arrested

Police have arrested two men accused of selling home-made guns to technical college students on Facebook, according to a report in Post Today.

Metropolitan Police Bureau chief, Pol Lt Gen Kamronwit Thupkrachang, announced the arrest of Withaya Chai-Auari, 32, and Suriya Khoksombat, 25, on Tuesday.

The suspects were arrested with 11 guns, two smoke bombs and 537 bullets along with equipment to assemble guns at their apartment in Bang Khen district in Bangkok, he said.

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  • felixqui

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    Discussion 2 : 26 Feb 2013 at 19.252

    This sort of thing might arguably deserve a death penalty. The goods sold were done so knowing that they were likely to be used to kill other, innocent people.

    In contrast, people selling drugs, such as alcohol, yaa baa and tobacco, are providing a much demanded service that does not in itself harm anyone else - people sitting at home zonked on brain destroying yaa baa or alcohol do not generally harm anyone but themselves, and whilst stupid, such self-harm is no excuse for state control - the users are not, after all, slaves.

    Are the Royal Thai Government ministers able to understand the subtle points here?

  • jck

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    Discussion 1 : 26 Feb 2013 at 14.041

    Just what is the point of showing criminals with their illegal goods in a police photo shoot. Is it merely to show the public the police have caught someone? It would be more appropriate to show the confiscated goods, be they drugs, guns or whatever actually being destroyed. I wonder how many confiscated items actually find their way back into circulation?

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