After the shooting, everyone was saying: Thailand's tourism industry, this is miserable.
What exactly is a miserable method, today there is a data.
The chairman of the Thai Tourism Association said in an interview with the media:
The 10.3 Siam Square shooting will cause 1 million fewer Chinese tourists than expected, causing Thailand's tourism revenue to shrink by 50 billion baht!
Although human life cannot be measured in money, but a gunshot, 50 billion turned into green smoke, Thailand is really miserable
Yesterday, the blood surged in the brain, and Thailand was trained in the article.
After cooling down, I looked at what I wrote and felt that some words were indeed too heavy.
Indeed, the shooting was indeed an "unforetold incident", and Thailand was a victim of the disaster, not the perpetrator.
Although the proliferation of guns is one of the causes of this tragedy, it is not Thailand, as a country's subjective malice towards Chinese, so it is also a bit of anger to spill on Thailand.
After all, tragedy no one wants to see.
After the disaster, Thailand's performance actually has some positive points.
The prime minister made a speech apologizing to the families of the victims and promising China to "protect the safety of Chinese tourists with the highest standards"
The king sent representatives to comfort the wounded.
Originally, the 1 million baht tourist casualty pension had been abolished at the end of the Prayuth government, but the Setta government still used special funds to provide huge pensions for the injured and the families of the deceased.
The Siam Paragon also issued a statement, promising to "be responsible to the end" of the innocent deaths and injuries in the shooting.
Thailand, in this regard, has done a fairly reliable job.
The performance of Thai people and mall staff is also touching.
According to the recollections of many Chinese who were at the scene, when the gunshots rang out, Paragon staff did not flee without permission, but escorted the people and tourists present to evacuate.
Paragon also evacuated the people in time to avoid more casualties.
(Siam Paragon security guards, bravely staying until the last minute to protect customers)
In fact, we are not blaming Thailand.
I just hope that Thailand can see its own shortcomings and experience the pain of the victims.
After the pain, punish the culprits, close the loopholes, and create a safer Thailand, using this as a promise and relief to Chinese tourists.
The so-called "give an explanation" means this.
Some readers left messages in the background, thinking that the old man was too harsh on "Thailand".
I accept this.
However, there are some readers who have a bizarre idea.
They completely deny that the proliferation of guns in Thailand is the cause of this case;
Some people even think that the misfortune of the deceased is a calamity that is difficult to escape, a kind of life that "the king of Yan told you to die three times, who dares to stay until five".
They categorically deny that there is a causal link between the proliferation of guns in Thailand and the "death under guns" of Chinese tourists.
There are even people who envy the legalization of firearms in Thailand.
They didn't think there was anything wrong with a 14-year-old boy being able to get a murderous weapon.
Also unashamedly mocked: people have guns, that is freedom, Chinese than you without guns, I don't know where to go.
Every time, as soon as there is a shooting in a foreign country, there will always be some Chinese who run out to envy.
I don't know, what exactly are they enviing.
Envy that you don't have a chance to get a shot?
I understand that their logic is that the gun is a symbol of freedom, a weapon for individual citizens to defend themselves, and a weapon to "resist the government."
They would refer to the Second Amendment, mentioning that "guns don't kill, people kill."
They always like to say: cars can also hit people, kitchen knives can also cut people, should cars be banned?
Every time he saw these words, the old man felt particularly ridiculous.
What era is this?
Your two broken guns can resist a hammer official.
Most of those killed by guns committed suicide with guns, and the rest were mostly gun violence caused by escalating conflicts between acquaintances, as well as criminals committing murder with guns.
There are very few opportunities for true self-defense with guns.
The proliferation of guns provides far more convenience to criminals than the general public.
A gun in a chest of drawers is used for suicide, and the probability of a husband killing his wife in a fit of anger is much higher than the probability of "repelling burgits".
What do their envious "free gun-wielding" Americans think about this?
In fact, they are also suffering from the proliferation of guns.
Even Americans in Thailand have left messages criticizing Thailand for "becoming more and more like the United States."
And suggest that Thailand learn from China, Japan, and Singapore — rather than shooting every day of the liberal United States.
(Message from American readers under the Bangkok Post: Thailand don't learn from the United States, learn from Japan, China, and Singapore!) ）
Do you go out on the street to buy something, will you carry a gun?
Will your child go to school with a gun?
When I met the boy with a gun in Siam Paragon, where were the guns of the Thais?
If Thailand strictly banned guns and made it easier for a 14-year-old to kill a teenager, would it be much safer for everyone?
Some people always feel that they are the one who shot them, not the ones who were shot.
It was only one day, when the muzzle of the gun was aimed at his brain, that he would wake up.
Only the day when his family, his friends, shivering at gunpoint, sent him distress messages in the bathroom cubicle, maybe he could wake up -
What is the "freedom" that he envies, celebrates, and pursues.
Tragedy, or not human beings can avoid it.
The shooting, perhaps, cannot be said to be all Thailand's fault.
But we should think, Thailand should reflect, to make amends, to fill in the gaps, to do our best to avoid the same tragedy, in the same way.
This is what we should really do in the face of tragedy.
Isn't it?