Doesn't happen often in PH and its' Southeast Asian population but does happen

[theking]

Three dead in graduation shooting at top Philippines university

ManilaThree people died in a shooting at a university graduation ceremony in the Philippines' capital region on Sunday, including a former mayor from the volatile south of the country, police said. Local Quezon City police chief Remus Medina said the shooting appeared to have been an assassination of the former mayor of the southern Lamitan city, Rose Furigay. The suspect, wounded in a shootout with a campus security officer and arrested after a car chase, was now in custody and being interrogated, Medina told reporters. "He looks like he was a determined assassin," Medina said, adding he was found with two pistols. Quezon is part of the Manila capital region, an urban sprawl of 16 cities home to more than 13 million people.

...In the Southeast Asian nation, shooting incidents are sporadic, with owners required to have permits to carry guns in public. Private security officers in the Philippines carry either handguns or shotguns, and firearms are a common sight in shopping malls, offices, banks, restaurants and even schools.
"We commit our law enforcement agencies to thoroughly and swiftly investigate these killings and bring all involved to justice," Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in a statement.

[DuMa]

I have a flip friend that tells me how it is like to live in his neck of the woods in the flips. 

I'm not sure which side he is on but he uses the word vigilante a lot.  So his house is in the middle of a big plot of land.  Surrounding are fenced off with camera footage rolling 24/7.  Imagine like the cartels where they have built a fortress to their living quarters.  He doesn't have arm guards 24/7 but he does have a ton of guns though.  So I'm not sure which side he flows, either with the government or protecting himself from the government or just protecting his family from the bad guys.   Regardless, it sounds like a chaotic world that he's living in though.  We talking about training your young kids how to fight and shoot guns at a young age, military boot camp type.   Here in America, he raises his 2 daughters like how he would raise them had they were born in the flips.  From weaponry to ancient fighting style called the escrima. 

Guy is a mechanical engineer and was trained early in everything like a james bond cia guy.  Only worked one job for 27 years and just retired.  I don't know much young retirees around my age who started worked early on in their careers either.  I mean he must of graduated from college with a mechanical degree by the age of 18 or something or maybe he got lucky to work while going for his degree.  Either way, the guy is something and loves to brags about his accomplishment .  His daughter works at the Laurence livermore lab with other UC berkeley brain farts so you know what kind of security clearance one needs to work in such field. 

anyways, his last project or prototype that he showed me was a lawn mower machine that he controls with a joy stick so like playing a video game, one can cut their own lawn.  He said he wants to take that idea and implemented in the flip islands and to help with the agriculture industry.  You know when a big typhoon be coming and they get it often over there, they will need to harvest their crops ASAP and fast or suffer the lost of revenues.  He's onto something big though.