[Hottentot]

I remember each time when something like this has happened and it has been committed with a pistol (usually), someone has said we're lucky the shooter didn't have anything bigger. But apparently this guy did have, unless by "automatic weapon" they mean an automatic pistol. The ever reliable Finnish media says that according to one of the witnesses the shooter had "a machinegun". Now "machinegun" in our journalists' dictionary (for some reason they all seem to use the same one) can mean pretty much anything from a submachinegun to an assault rifle, but it implies it was something bigger.

Troubling nevertheless. I don't know if these cases have become more common than before, but I sure hope the trend is not going towards more and more destructive weaponry. Then again, I'm surprised these loonies so often seem to go for mere pistols instead of for example making a homemade bomb. Good for the rest of us I guess.

Let's hope at least the injured will get well.