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EXPLAINED: Lessons to learn from nursery tragedy | Vintage Vibes

A 2018 file photo shows 184 guns confiscated in a crackdown in which 184 people were held for illegal possession and 379 others on drug charges. Wichan Charoenkiatpakul/Bangkok Post

Narcotic drugs, methamphetamines in particular, and guns, when they are mixed together, are a dangerous chemistry for violence -- much worse than the combination of alcohol and guns.

Hence, from time to time, we hear reports of a man who turns into a monster when high on methamphetamines. He seizes his own child at gunpoint or knifepoint, and in some macabre cases, kills his own family without any sense of guilt.

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