Do Active Shooter Drills Help? Two Asian Nations Grapple With Gun Violence.

After school shootings, Thailand and the Philippines are taking different approaches to the drills, which are common practice in the United States. By Phuriphat Dejsuphong Aie Balagtas See and Max Kim Phuriphat Dejsuphong reported from Bangkok, Aie Balagtas See from Manila and Max Kim from Seoul Last month, after a 14-year-old boy gunned down six people with his grandfather’s pistol at school in central Thailand, Kanyaphat Kanphuwanan, the director of a high school in Bangkok, imagined a similar horror unfolding on her own campus. “How would we have managed it, and how would we prepare our children and our teachers?” she recalled thinking. That question reverberated widely in the wake of the shooting, which also wounded nearly 30 others and was the country’s deadliest since 2022. As the government vowed to tighten gun laws and instructed schools to strengthen security, anxious parents demanded that Ms. She did not need much convincing.

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