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".
If we are to have the kind of society where we can watch a parade or go to school, a movie or house of worship without fearing for our lives, we must all do everything we can to effect change.
If we are to have the kind of society where we can watch a parade or go to school, a movie or house of worship without fearing for our lives, we must all do everything we can to effect change.
"If we are to have the kind of society where we can watch a parade, or go to school, a movie or house of worship without fearing for our lives, we must all do everything we can to effect change."
As Kansas City processes a mass shooting outside Union Station Wednesday, many are wondering how gun violence can be addressed and what the future of the city looks like.
the man who spent more than a quarter century transforming gun culture in politics is now preparing tonight to step aside. wayne lapierre says he's resigning as the head of the national rifle association, a move i should note comes on the eve of a corruption trial here in manhattan that threatens the future of the powerful lobbying group. but no matter how that case plays out that starts on monday, lapierre's legacy stands as a bull work virtually any gun legislation. wave after wave after wave of demands for more restrictions. whether it was amid the surge of gun violence on american streets in the 1990s or a generation growing up amid mass shooting after mass shooting. as the scenes of children running with their hands up from their classrooms is now grimly becoming all too normal. lapierre's power and influence in washington grew to heights that very few others have ever reached. it was in the wake of the sandy hook elementary school shooting in connecticut where 20 young