shooting in a finnish school

zaky

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I read the info 2 minutes ago. 18 yare old Pekka-Erik Auvinen kills one man and wounded another. He barricaded himself in a school in Tuusula 50 km near Helsinki.
 

bd popeye

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I found a link to NewsRoom Finland:

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I hope Golly is OK

Me too:(..Golly was last on this site about three hours ago.

Here are some PIX from Getty...

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Policemen officers stand guard in front of a temporary crisis centre organized by the authorities at a church following the Jokela high school shooting in Tuusula, some 50 kilometres north of Helsinki, 07 November 2007. Several people were killed and several others seriously injured in the shooting at the Finnish secondary school, officials said, amid unconfirmed reports that the gunman was also dead. AFP PHOTO/ LEHTIKUVA-Antti Aimo-Koivisto. *** FINLAND OUT *** (Photo credit should read ANTTI AIMO KOIVISTO/AFP/Getty Images)
 
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Gollevainen

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I'm fine but damn pissed:mad::mad:

This is unfortunate and totally unexspected here, it greatly trembles the idea of our small piece of land being somewhat free from these kind of madness.

What is know at the moment is that this 18- year old student entered his school with 22.LR pistol and starts to shoot everyone. He killed the headmaster of the school and 5 boys and 2 girls and then shot himself to the head. He didn't died but is in critical condition and the doctors expects him not to survive.
Yeasterday he posted a film to Youtube where he told about the happenings but naturally none reacted to the stuff and no precaution meassures taken. He was apparently some sort of right-wing extremist and from his "testament" can be read that he was really disturbed.

Things that pisses me of are naturally the whole event but that he was a sportshooter like myself and was only recently given the permission to the murderweapon. In here the gunlaws are quite strict and you need to be part of shootingclub before you can start even planning to purchase a firearms. So why was he given a permission to carry arms?
....Well thats just afterwisdoms, how can you really tell from someone?

This whole thing is just down there....

My condolanzes to the victims families and close ones:(
 

bd popeye

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I'm happy you were not involved in any way and that you are safe and sound.

From what you describe there was some poor judgment on the part of the authorities on issuing him a permit to carry a firarm. Tragic situation. I cannot imangine the horror of the parents and loved ones.

Look for the Finnish gun laws to be evn more strict..sad to say.
 

Gollevainen

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Well there's 5 million of us so tough my ego may seem bigger, I am however not involved to everything that is in or from finland...;)


But yeah it will be hard time for us sportshooters...
 

Finn McCool

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Other than a safety inspection they won't touch those cannisters until the ship is in port to replenish those missiles that have been fired. That Mk 41 VLS cannot be replenished at sea safely.


Wait what? I don't see what missles and VLS systems have to do with this situation so I'm obviously missing some point. Could you enlighten me?
 

bd popeye

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Wait what? I don't see what missles and VLS systems have to do with this situation so I'm obviously missing some point. Could you enlighten me?


My bad! I copied and pasted that from another forum I'm a member of..Those are my words by the way..so sorry!:eek:
 

SteelBird

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There's something I don't understand, since Golly has said that gun-law in Finland is very strict, how can an 18 years old student be permit to carry firearm? He is too young.
 
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