Finland already has quite "strict" firearms legislation and now is not the right time to discuss tightening it, Interior Minister Mari Rantanen said, following a school shooting this week in which a 12-year-old boy shot three classmates. Finnish interior ministry data show there are more than 1.5 million licensed firearms and about 430,000 licence holders in the nation of 5.6 million people, where hunting and target shooting are popular pastimes. Finland's rate of civilian firearms per capita was the highest among European Union countries, a study by Small Arms Survey found in 2018, but Rantanen said the high number of guns does not make Finland "a gun violent country".
In a somber revelation shedding light on the tragic school shooting at Viertola school in Vantaa, Finland, Eastern Uusimaa police have stated that bullying was the motive behind the young suspect's actions. The 12-year-old boy, who had recently transferred to the school at the start of the year, resorted to violence after he "had been…
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Eastern Uusimaa Police Department on Wednesday also revealed that, after the deadly shooting, the suspect used his gun to threaten pupils who were on their way to school in Siltamäki, Helsinki.