Tuesday, September 23, 2008  Another School Shooting - Kauhajoki
Finland  For once we can discuss a school shooting that did not
occur in the USA. Yahoo News reports on the incident that took
place today in Kauhajoki, 180 miles northwest of Helsinki. Nine
people are reported dead and an undetermined number wounded. The
gunman shot and killed himself. (Big hat tip to Il Principe)
The shootings happened almost a year after another gunman killed
eight people and himself at a school in southern Finland, an
attack that triggered a fierce debate about gun laws in this
Nordic nation with deep-rooted traditions of hunting in the sub-
Arctic wilderness.  With 1.6 million firearms in private hands,
Finland is an anomaly in Europe, lagging behind only the United
States and Yemen in civilian gun ownership, studies show.  Last
year's shooter was named Pekka-Eric Auvinen, described as a
bullied 18-year-old outcast. He opened fire at his high school
in southern Finland on Nov. 7th, killing six students, a school
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