Finnish school gunman kills nine at a college

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Keltoi said:
Finland is just behind the United States and Yemen in gun ownership. Primarily because it is a hunting culture, much like the U.S.

Sad story. Sounds like another in a long line of Columbine copy cats.
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It's easy to obtain gun in Thailand too...:blind:
 
Suomipoika said:
I just hope whatever the goverment ends up doing is something more than just the cosmetical "lets ban the guns". Sad truth is that Finland has ridiculously high suicide rates, especially among young males and we really need to look into why so many suffer from anxiety and depression. Actually we should have been looking into it long time ago, but its so much more easier to blame something like TV, guns, music or computer games than to really try to find the answers and do something.
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Innit. I hope so too.
 
I've always heard that the suicide rate in Scandinavian countries are much higher than in other regions of the world. I wonder why that is?
 
Keltoi said:
I've always heard that the suicide rate in Scandinavian countries are much higher than in other regions of the world. I wonder why that is?
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I have never heard about it before. The weather and high taxes arent enough reasons. :X
 
Keltoi said:
I've always heard that the suicide rate in Scandinavian countries are much higher than in other regions of the world. I wonder why that is?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

According to wiki Finland has around 20 suicides per 100 000 people while other scandinavian countries have between 11.5 to 13.6, comparably USA has 11 suicides per 100 000 people, so it seems that its just Finland which has higher suicide rates among Scandinavia. Dont really know how accurate that is but Im surpriced to see Belgium having more suicides than Finland. Top of the list seems to be somewhat dominated by countries that were blessed with communism. That South Korea has higher suicide rates than Japan is kind of surpricing too.
 

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