Europe @feddit.de Lee Duna @lemmy.nz 8mo ago

A 12-year-old student opens fire at a school in Finland and wounds 3 others

apnews.com A 12-year-old student opens fire at a school in Finland and wounds 3 others

The shooting took place at Viertola school outside the Finnish capital.

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One 12 year old child has died. Two others wounded. Horrible.
This is gonna be interesting.

If I had to guess, I'd put my money on a high power air pistol.

Very unlikely there's an "actual" handgun on a 12-year old.

Not impossible, but unlikely. And he'd never manage to get to the school to shoot anyone if he was packing a rifle.

edit apparently it was a "real" gun yeah
- A wittness heard shots in the neighbourhood, so quite possible to be a real gun...
  
  Thanks for the info.
  
  I checked Yle and the police called it an "ampuma-ase", but the law defining those does cover high power air weapons.
  
  And not to discredit the witness in any way, but if they were close to the shooting and are say, a late middle-aged woman with no experience of guns irl (no sexism just statistically most Finnish men go through the army so they'd know), they might have confuses a high power gas pistol with an actual one, since the gas weapons do also make a mean pop.
  
  However it could just as well be an actual gunpowder propeller firearm, it's not impossible, and am very interested in how it was acquired if it is an actual gun.
  
  My guess would be something like the kid is from a bad family in which the father is a dipshit criminal who has like a starter pistol bored to .22. Even with criminals, gun are rather rare. (I happen to know the local black markets to some extent.)
  
  Perhaps the capital area is getting more out of control than I know. I live a few cities away.
- Did you read the article? It was a relatives gun.
  
  Yeah, it says that now.
  
  It didn't say it at 11 in the morning when they first published. It's been updated several times during the day.
  
  a relative's* gun
This is the best summary I could come up with:

HELSINKI (AP) — A 12-year-old student opened fire at a secondary school in southern Finland and wounded three other students on Tuesday, police said.

The suspect was later arrested, police said.

Heavily armed police cordoned off the lower secondary school, with some 800 students, in the city of Vantaa, just outside the capital, Helsinki, after receiving a call about a shooting incident at 09:08 a.m.

Police said both the suspect and the wounded were 12 years old.

Police said the suspect was arrested in the Helsinki area later Tuesday.

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Yay, another great thing imported from the US. Recently there was a shooting in Czechia, now Finland, looks like fun times are ahead.
- @[email protected]
  
  Is this bait or do you really blame the US every time you stub your toe as well?
- Is it the US that inspires these?
  
  Not really inspires, but I think the exposure to the US shooting culture is not helping the matters. Like, if you have a proof that it's possible to do, it's more likely you'll do it.
- Everything is the US's fault 🙄
  
  Name three nations whose democratically elected president has been couped by the US in favour of installing a corrupt tyrant that happily sold out his people in exchange for power.
  
  Bonus points if the nations are not all from the same continent.
  
  How the hell did you come to the conclusion? It's the fault of those that do the shooting and ours that we have an environment that allows something like that to happen. I'm not blaming the US, just saying that it's the one thing we shouldn't really import from the US.

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