Yesterday (23.9.) a guy did something he claims to have been planning for years. At about 11 in the morning Matti Juhani Saari pulls out a gun in his own school, the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, and starts shooting his schoolmates, ultimately killing a male teacher and a student and eight female students. In the end he set the building in fire and shot himself in the head and died a few hours later in hospital.

This is one of the two school shootings that have happened in Finland during my life time, the other one being the shooting in Jokela in 2007. After the events last year people started to demand restrictions for getting a gun permit. Now, after another shooting the same people ask again, where is the change? Just about nothing was done to prevent this happening again.
Though it is too easy to get the permit, I think the problem lies elsewhere. We shouldn't be trying to make getting the guns hard. If someone wants to go and shoot his friends, he will get the gun no matter how hard it is. Instead we should take care of the children. There is something wrong with mental care if an intelligent and brisk young student kills people.

It is sad that things like this happen. I can't do anything but send Kauhajoki my condolences and go on. This period has a sorrowful start in my school.