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Posted at 3:01pm on Nov. 9, 2007 Murder in Finland. (A shocker, despite permissive gun laws.)
By Mark Kilmer
Finland is become a firing range. Eighteen-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen rampaged through his high school Wednesday, killing six of his fellow students and two members of staff before turning .22 caliber pistol on himself.
Now, it should be noted that this most important part of this story from the BBC is that Finland's gun laws are nothing if not out-and-out LAX.
