http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7082795.stm
If there's someone there who isn't informed yet, on the 7th of this month, a high schooler Pekka-Eric Auvinen went to his Literature and Grammar clasess and singlemindedly shot to death 8 people, including the principal and the nurse in the middle of sub-urban Jokela. The day before he had left a message to the net which proclaimed that "Today, history will be made". Apparently he was influenced by the previous school massacres and had discussed about it before with Dillon Cossey who was arrested a couple of days ago before he managed to attempt a similar attack in Philadelphia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting
Right now, it's a ****ing riot here. Nearly everyone is scared, almost no one expected that this could happen in Finland. It's like suddenly everyone has awoken to little our world is. Flags are in half-mast, students won't go to schools or aren't allowed to go and people are yelling for stricter gun laws in response to how "easily" Pekka-Eric has got one. I have a pal who lost friends in Tuusula and my family was devastated on Thursday because "Something like this just isn't possible in FInland"(according to a family friend). I heard that some students had tried to make the principal close the school because they knew Pekka had a gun and had made a video about the shooting, but no one believed them or didn't think anyone capable of this. It feels a bit like Finland has finally realized how naive our idea of a northern Nokia-haven really is and how false the thought of things not being able to reach us, even though we are the most networked nation in Europe. It's about time though, no matter how hard the reckoning came.