Finnish gunman kills 10, self

Yeah.

Saw this, shook my head. Sighed. No particular reaction beyond that yet.

Just saw this at the BBC. I'm tired of it.

Damn awful guns anyway! Geesh, maybe we should ban them. That would make the criminals and madmen all go away.

Wouldn't it?

Don't you think it's an interesting "coincidence" that these things have a tendency to occur in the USA and in Finland, two of the countries in the world with the most liberal gun laws?

The point is that the kind of people responsible for such shootings are not criminals per se. They're disillusioned young people who're fed up with society. Probably very introvert too. They probably wouldn't even know how to obtain a gun illegally. If Finland had had the same gun laws as here in Sweden for example, this shooting and the one that took place less than a year ago in another Finnish city would never have taken place I'm pretty sure.

Of course you could argue that if he hadn't used a gun, he could have used a knife or whatever, but then he surely wouldn't have been able to kill 10 people.

I work at a Finnish University of Applied Sciences, the same type of school as was affected by this latest atrocity. Our foreign students do not feel safe in Finland anymore. Only yesterday an ignorant racist bastard came to a dormitory and threatened our students with a gun. The police arrested him and claimed it was a replica gun, but the students aren't sure. He will soon be out again and being an evil idiot he will just as soon be at it again, just until something serious happens. The law does not give the police the right to do anything effective until after people get hurt.

So its societies fault?

WHY?
Are you saying that if his girlfriend hadnt dumped him, or if he hadnt been picked on, or if he had been allowed to have a car, or if he hadnt had pimples, or any one of a thousand other things that he wouldnt have committed the shootings?