Shooting incident in a Finnish high school, 7 dead Options

[pMASTER]

Not to sure about the Fins, but firearms laws in some countries are utter nonsense and dangerous, im from london and we do get quite a few shootings from gangs ect from my area, but as firearms are illegal there are not a massive amount,

Maybe you think so, but it's not true. In fact countries with strict firearm laws don't show less gun-related crime than those with generous regulations.

[Jeza]

Put it this way, you figures are right im sure however I was in Long beach california for 4months and saw on the news about more shootings than where I live in UK all year, and more over I live in London where gun crime is riffe, but its still nothing compared to california. Anyway figures are figures, living around it and working on the streets changes your perspective a whole lot

[pMASTER]

Indeed it does. So does media coverage of crime.
There was an interesting study over here in Germany were scientists found out that the majority of the population did agree that sexual offenses would be on an all time high despite in fact shrinking numbers of registered crimes. The sole reason was that media coverage led to an increased attention. Ergo, just that you hear a lot about crime doesn't mean there is more crime.

[Jeza]

True crime is down in parts of London, but you wouldnt know it hearing the news!