Licensed Gun Owner Murders 10 People

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Gunman Kills 10 in Finnish school shooting
Reuters - 9/23/08

KAUHAJOKI, Finland - A student gunman shot and killed 10 people at a vocational school in western Finland on Tuesday before turning the gun on himself, in the country's second such attack in less than a year.

The gunman, 22-year old student Matti Saari, died later of a head wound in Tampere University Hospital, the hospital's medical director told Reuters.

In an echo of last year's deadly attack at Finland's Jokela high school, Saari posted menacing comments and videos of himself wielding a gun on the Internet in the run-up to his shooting rampage, prompting police to question him on Monday.

"A cold-blooded shooter entered the building with an automatic pistol and started cutting down students," said Jukka Forsberg, a maintenance man at the school in the town of Kauhajoki where the shooting occurred.

"He also shot towards me, did not say anything and once the bullets started to whizz by I started running for my life."

Many of the students at the post-secondary school, which teaches catering and tourism studies, are around 20 years old.

Police interviewed Saari regarding the shooting video a day before the massacre, Interior Minister Anne Holmlund told a news conference. They were alerted to footage posted on the Web showing him firing a handgun at a shooting range.

"Police action will be examined in more detail later. The gunman had a temporary permit for a .22 caliber pistol, and he had received it in August 2008. It was his first gun," she said.

Gun ownership in Finland is among the highest in the world, but crime rates in general are low.

Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said Finland should consider banning private handguns altogether, saying a new stricter European-wide gun law was not enough.

"It is not enough to talk about age limits or interviews ... after two such tragic incidents, we have to discuss whether private people can be allowed to have handguns," Vanhanen told Finnish broadcaster MTV3.

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Saw this in the news this morning. What bothered me the most here was that the shooter was actually licensed!

I don't know the details of previous school shootings, but I assumed they were parent's guns taken by their kids to school, or just unregistered/unlicensed firearms. I may be wrong. But in this case it was a licensed gun and the actual licensed gun owner doing the shooting!

Wala bang liability yung bumigay sa shooter ng permit or clearance to own a gun?