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Anutin defends intruder-shooting remarks amid gun overhaul
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Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Wednesday defended remarks that triggered a social-media backlash, saying he ment that homeowners who shot intruders dead would initially be treated as suspects in a criminal case, and explaining that even a claim of self-defence would have to be examined by the courts.
Key facts
- Section 68 of the Criminal Code provides that a person is not guilty of an offence when acting to defend themselves or another person against an imminent unlawful threat, provided that the response
- He linked the controversy to the government’s broader effort to tighten firearms controls, reiterating that Thailand’s tens of millions of guns needed to be brought under stricter regulation.
- That is too much when the population is only 70 million,”
- Speaking at Sanam Luang at 7.35am on Wednesday (August 12), the prime minister and interior minister acknowledged that his earlier explanation might have been too brief but insisted that the law on self-defence had not changed.
Summary
He linked the controversy to the government’s broader effort to tighten firearms controls, reiterating that Thailand’s tens of millions of guns needed to be brought under stricter regulation.
“We have to bring guns in Thailand under control. There are tens of millions of them. That is too much when the population is only 70 million,” Anutin said.