There isn't a single shop in the South of Thailand where a gun can be bought legally, but statistics revealing the number of people killed or injured by small arms point to the rise of a gun culture, especially in the three southernmost provinces, driven in part by the basic instinct of self protection. The prevalence of small arms — weapons which can be easily carried by an individual — has been the trigger point of so much chaos and violence in recent years. It... (GunPolicy.org)