Rooftop gunman kills two and wounds several in Hyvinkää, Finland.
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[QUOTE=Spool;36108395]Wasn't the shooter booted out of the army too some time before the shooting, or is that just a rumor? If his health was good, as implied by his sport hobbies, he must have had some mental problems there too.[/QUOTE]
If he is 18, he would've gone to the army this July or January 2013. So I doubt he's done his army service.
[QUOTE=Spool;36108395]Wasn't the shooter booted out of the army too some time before the shooting, or is that just a rumor? If his health was good, as implied by his sport hobbies, he must have had some mental problems there too.[/QUOTE]
He never did army. He only went to the call-up but never went in the service.
He looks like a lunatic.
[QUOTE=Maucer;36107836]What, do some countries actually have security forces in schools?[/QUOTE]
All of the schools I've attended (in California at least) has always had some type of security department, except elementary school. Even then, it was more or less a group of former police officers or rent-a-cops that rode bikes around and yelled at you for not walking fast enough to class during passing period.
[QUOTE=Maucer;36107836]What, do some countries actually have security forces in schools?[/QUOTE]
The American school in the Netherlands has their own private security force...
I mean, it's a private school for stuck up kids with expat parents, why the fuck would they need a security force.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;36108005]There's been 3 school shootings in our entire history; Rauma 1989, Jokela 2007 and Kauhajoki 2008. In the same space of time there's been nearly 20 school shootings in the USA.[/QUOTE]
But the U.S. also has ~59x the population.
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;36106964]What's up with the Nordic region having more mass murderers all of a sudden?[/QUOTE]
Growing influence from American culture.
[QUOTE=CommunistCookie;36113161]But the U.S. also has ~59x the population.[/QUOTE]And taking into account shootings before that time period in the US, the ratio of school shooting in each country easily goes up to 50:1
Statistically speaking 3 incidents is far too small to make any good statistics of. If for example, someone shot up a school in e.g. Micronesia - although it could be a complete freak occurrence - they suddenly become the school shooting capital of the world per capita.
In any case, there's been little common reason found behind school shootings, other than the perpetrators being virtually all male, and they plan rather than snap. Statistics has little use in studying school shootings, as each case is different, and only serves to give a false sense of security or nationalistic dick-waving (oh we've got less shootings per capita, we're so awesome/they're so barbaric and have a diseased society) It's more productive to study each case individually, find what went wrong and how to prevent it in the future. For example, in the case of Matti Juhani Saari, it's been debated whether police had enough information before the shooting that would've given them reason to revoke his firearms licence. Indeed, a police inspector involved with the case went on trial for dereliction of duty in 2009.
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