As confused as it's possible to be
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Student admits fatal bus shooting: "Last Friday, the Central Juvenile and Family Court issued an arrest warrant for the student for killing another person by using a firearm ..."
A warrant worded as a metaphor for murder, this student’s initial claims give rise to a number of questions in regard to the kind of education from which he actually benefits at Don Muang Technical School.
According to his confession, his “foes” pulled knives. On the bus? What did he suppose they were going to do? Throw them at him?
He was, so he would have us believe, unable to connect carrying a gun with intent to murder. What other purpose does he suppose a gun serves?
Does he have any real idea of what an enemy actually is – one that could, and would, kill him, as soon as look at him? Does he have any concept of the difference between a mistake and an act of monumental folly?
And his concern for his and his mates’ parents is admirable. A pity such concern doesn’t seem to extend to his “enemies”, or to their parents, or to his non-“enemies” – who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time – and to their families.
And however he got hold of the gun, someone else besides him is culpable.
John Allan
Bangkok
