It looks like crazy people are everywhere, it's not a US only problem and it has little to do with gun control.
Click through to the story and read the comments from the locals. They sound very similar to the comments in the US.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...e-Finland-mall-worked-committing-suicide.html
Click through to the story and read the comments from the locals. They sound very similar to the comments in the US.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...e-Finland-mall-worked-committing-suicide.html
Kosovan gunman kills ex-wife then four people at Finland mall where she worked before committing suicide
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 9:33 AM on 02nd January 2010
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A gunman went on a New Year's Eve shooting rampage, killing his ex-girlfriend and four workers at a shopping centre before turning the gun on himself.
One woman and three men were shot dead at the Sello mall in Espoo, six miles west of Helsinki, in the shooting on Thursday.
The gunman, who was dressed in black, had killed his ex-girlfriend in a nearby apartment before heading to the shopping centre in mid-morning.
He was identified as 43-year-old Ibrahim Shkupolli, a Kosovan immigrant who had been living for several years in Finland.
A witness claimed the gunman, dressed in black, opened fire on the second floor of the complex.
Another described how one victim was shot twice in the head.
When police searched a flat linked to the man, they found a body believed to be his ex-girlfriend.
Shkupolli, who is believed to be an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, used a 9-millimeter caliber hand gun for the killings.
After several hours, a body was found in Shkupolli's home, which police confirmed to be the gunman. Police superintendent Jukka Kaski said it appeared to be suicide.
Police vehicles and ambulances parked outside the Sello shopping centre as the area is evacuated
A policeman guards the entrance to the shopping centre
The ex-girlfriend, a Finnish woman born in 1967, also worked at the mall and had taken out a restraining order against Shkupolli, police said.
Witnesses said panic erupted at the mall, one of the Nordic region's largest, when the shots rang out.
Hundreds of mall workers were evacuated to a nearby library and firehouse, trains were halted and helicopters brought in as police launched a manhunt for the heavily armed killer.
After several hours, a body was found in Shkupolli's home, which police believed to be the killer himself. Police refused to confirm the exact identity immediately, but said the cause of the death appeared to be suicide.
Police refused to discuss Shkupolli's nationality, but Finnish media reported he was an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo.
At a news conference, police officials refused to say whether the four killed at the mall had been targeted by Shkupolli.
The mid-morning slayings shocked hundreds of people who had gone shopping early on New Year's Eve.
One witness told the state broadcaster YLE that a gunman dressed in black began randomly shooting at people on the second floor of the mall.
A forensics team begins work in the Prisma supermarket at the Sello shopping center
'There were loads of people who were crying, and many vendors who were completely panicked,' the unnamed witness said.
Another female witness told YLE radio news she saw the suspect carrying a long-barrelled pistol and rushing past the cashier line at Sello's Prisma supermarket, where the slayings took place.
A witness who saw the attack told YLE he saw one worker lying on the floor covered in blood.
Inside the Sello shopping centre in Espoo, Finland, where the shooting took place (file picture)
YLE said shots were fired at about 10:20am (08:20 GMT) and parts of the mall were evacuated. The newspaper Ilta-Sanomat said on its website at least seven shots were fired, but it gave no source for the information.
Another witness who was in the centre at the time told Finnish radio that a panic ensued as the shooting began. 'There were loads of people who were crying, and many vendors who were completely panicked.
'It seems like they hadn't caught the one who shot. No one seemed to know what had happened.'
End of the line: The residential block in Espoo where the body of Ibrahim Shukupolli was found
The Sello shopping centre describes itself as one of the Nordic region's largest with more than 170 shops. It opened in 2005.
Espoo, home of the Nokia phone company, is Finland's second largest city.
In the last two years there have been massacres by lone gunmen in the country.
This is the third public shooting in as many years, and Finland tightened gun control regulations after school shootings in 2007 and 2008.
In the town of Kauhajoki in September of last year Matti Saari killed ten people at his vocational college and then set their bodies alight. He had posted warnings of his rampage on the internet.
In November, 2007, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, killed eight people and himself at a school in Jokela.
Finland has deep-rooted hunting traditions and ranks - along with the United States - among the top five nations in the world in civilian gun ownership.
The country has 1.6 million firearms in private hands - with a population of 5.3 million.
Politicians, social workers and religious leaders have urged tighter gun laws, more vigilance of Internet sites, and more social bonding in the small Nordic nation, known for its high suicide rates, heavy drinking and domestic violence.
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