Shooting spree in Malaysia

The recent spate of shooting spree in Malaysia really caught everyone by surprise. The frequency, the brutality is far far out of everyone's expectation. Not that it never happened before, but those were few and far in between, often being the result of quarrels or sometimes between the Police and criminals. Malaysians are not used to killers coolly walking up to the unsuspecting victims and shot them at close range in cold blood.
In just 5 months this year, more than 32 cases are reported, more than the grand total of several years in the past.

Below is the list of shootings in the past few months:

List of shootings in Malaysia 2013

No	Date	Place	Victim	Victim's Occupation	Attackers	Status
1	12-Apr	Inside car,Taman Sri Labu,Seremban	James John. Age 45		2 men on motorcycle	Dead
2	14-Apr	With family at restaurant,Oatland Commercial Centre	Tan Kok Soon.Age 56		1 man	Dead
3	16-Apr	Restaurant,Taiping	K.Muthazagen.Age 47		1 man	Dead
4	25-Apr	Inside car,Outside JPJ office,Tampin	N. Ragunathan.Age 39	Runner at JPJ	2 men on motorcycle	Dead
5	26-Apr	Together with mother,Cheras	R.Karikaalan.Age 29,Mother age 60.		2 men on motorcycle	Dead, Mother wounded
6	30-Apr	Victim's residnce,Simpang,Taiping	Age 26		2 men on motorcycle	Missed
7	8-May	Oil Palm Plantation,Tangkak	Muthu Pillai.Age 41	Engineer	Unknown	Dead
8	9-May	Near victim's flat,Taman Setia Jaya,Alor Setar	M.Nagenthiran.age 30	Tow truck operator	Unknown	Dead
9	11-May	Inside car,at an intersection,Taman Kucai,Lunas	Thangaraja.Age 31	Shop assistant	Unknown	Dead
10	11-May	Inside 4-wheel drive,at traffic lights junction,Seremban	Chalidass.Age 29 & G.Surentharan.Age 31			Dead
11	12-May	Cheras	N.Saravanan & Tamil Selvam	Police Volunteers		Injured
12	12-May	Inside car at traffic light junction,Bukit Tambun,Butterworth	S.Kannan.Age 37 & G.Suresh.Age 28 & 2 friends			Dead, friends seriously injured
13	29-May	Bandar Rahman Putra,Sg Buloh,KL.	A businessman	Businessman	2 men on motorcycle	Injured
14	4-Jun	In restarant,Taman Kota Raya,Taiping	Govindaraju @ Murthy.Age 36 & A.Manivannan	Garage owner	1 man	Dead, friend injured
15	6-Jun	30 meters from victim's house,Muar	Tan Chai Heng.Age 51			Dead
16	14-Jun	Bus station,Kuala Kurau	Lim Kong Hai.Age 52	Businessman		Injured seriously.Died of heart attack in hospital 2 weeks later
17	15-Jun	Inside car at traffic junction,Putrajaya	Datuk Shaharuddin Ibrahim.Age 52	Dep Director-General,Royal Malaysian Customs Dept.	2 men on motorcycle	Dead
18	5-Jul	Inside car,Kg Kubang Panjang,Pasir Mas	Mat Zaki Hashim.Age 35	Teacher		Neck seriously injured
19	8-Jul	While leaving school,Tawang,Bachok,Kelantan	Hashim Mat Zain.Age 43	Students Affairs Sr. Asst.		Dead
20	12-Jul	In front victim's home,Bukit Jambu,George Town	A man & his 4-year-old son	Car Re-possessor	1 man	Father unhurt,son injured
21	15-Jul	Victim's home,Taman Sejahtera,Kampar	Father age 51 & Son age 13		2 men	Both critically injured
22	18-Jul	Inside car at traffic junction,Simpang Empat Keladi,Kulim	Age 45	Teacher.	1 Man	Dead
23	26-Jul	Inside lorry, Temerloh		Lorry Driver,(PPK)		Wounded in the arm
24	27-Jul	Inside car,Bahau,Jempol	Sri Sanjeevan Ramakrishan. Chairman,MyWatch			Injured
25	28-Jul	At restaurant,Kg Simee, Ipoh	Jasrafveenderjeet Singh.Age 25. & 2 friends Age 28,55.			Dead, Friends injured.
26	29-Jul	Parking area at Lorong Ceylon, Kuala Lumpur	Hussain Ahmad Najadi.Age 75 & Wife	Founder of Arab-Malaysian Development Bank	1 Man	Dead, Wife injured
27	29-Jul	At traffic junction,Bukit Mertajam	G.Santhanasamy.Age 30			Injured in the legs
28	30-Jul	Victim's house,Mentakab				Back window of victim's car shattered
29	31-Jul	Inside car at traffic junction,Jalan Permai Utama ,Parit Buntar	N.Jeevandran.Age 26	Former EO detainee,who was wanted by the Police	1 man	Dead
30	2-Aug	Inside car,at traffic lights junction,Pandan Indah	Wong Foo Yui	Gold dealer	1 man	Injured in the shoulder,escaped from the shooter
31	3-Aug	At victim's home while he was taking a nap, Kajang	Balamurali Balakrishnan	Just released from prison one month ago.		Dead
32	3-Aug	Parking lot outside restaurant,Beverly Hills Commercial Complex,Penampang,Kota Kinabalu	Tiong Choon Kwong. Age 44	Businessman	1 man inside car	Dead

It seems that the criminals are rushing to do their shootings before the Police force are awaken from their day dreaming.

The biggest joke is that the IGP said,"It is not that the nation has become unsafe, it is just that many gun-shooting incidences happening at the same time." Come on, a traffic jam is a traffic jam.Don't say," it just happened many cars are on the road at the same time." A war is a war, don't say,"Just that many bombs,cannons,guns are fired at the same time."

I think this is one of the contributing factors that the BN lose the hearts of urban voters.Coupled with the never ending "ragot" cases, house break-ins,the urban voters decided that the government is not doing what they are supposed to do, that is: give them a safe enviroment to seek employment, to live in, to shop, to dine, to go out with family. They think these things are far more important than the government's grand grand manifestors and visions.

It is a pity that our Prime Minister does not see this, instead he blamed the drop in supports on the "Chinese Tsunami". It is the urban voters aganist the rural voters, not the Chinese voters against the Malays voters, it just so happened that most Chinese voters are corwded at the urban areas. If he can not see this and retify it, don't be surprised that the urban voters will desert him again in the next general election.