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Originally Posted by Schroeder
Can it be that the amount of shootings in Finland is pretty high for such a small population?  |
Amount of guns, definitely. Amount of shootings? I'm not so sure about that.
I don't have statistics, but from gut feeling I'd say we have fairly few gun related crimes, at least knowing the fact that the guns
are available. Heck, even I'd know where to get one, and I don't even know what I would need it for. But our violent crimes don't often involve guns: we go stabbing each other or something (usually while drunk), but we don't shoot each other. Burglars don't come knocking with guns. Heck, even the people sentenced for murders seem to do it more often with some other ways than guns. Guns, at least as far as I'm concerned, relate more to gang violence or some other organized crime, which is not common but it exists.
But when we, as in "normal" people, go shooting, it happens like this. A guy takes a gun and starts shooting. Maybe he (let's face it, it's almost certainly a "he") has some sort of plan like the school shooters do, but it might as well be a random rampage like this. And that gets noticed by the international media as well, which on the other hand creates an idea of Finland having lots of shootings. Given that the tools for such are widely available and that alcohol is often involved in our violence, I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more often.