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Finland has been allowing 15 year-olds to buy guns!!!!


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Finland has been allowing 15 year-olds to buy guns!!!!
The recent deadly school rampage in Finland has brought focus on the hunting-prone nation's gun laws. Finland has the world's third highest rate of gun ownership behind the United States and Yemen and 15-year-olds can buy guns if parents approve.

Raising the gun buying age to 18 would not have prevented this shooting as the shooter was 18 years old

And I thought the U.S. was the crazy gun country. Now if guns are the problem and if Finland has been allowing 15 year-olds to buy guns why hasn't there been dozens of high profile shootings in Finland like there has been in America? I think this speaks volumes about how it's the culture of the country that influences gun violence far more than the availability of guns themselves.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8VIh1Sw3R61ppFilzgq...
scootmac

6 responses // Finland has been allowing 15 year-olds to buy guns!!!!

  • http://www.nra.org/
    The NRA
    The NRA
    would, I believe, disagree with your reasoning. Instead, they would say that the wide availability of guns is helping to keep crime down - as a criminal, it's nice and easy to pick on someone who's unarmed, but if there's a chance that your targets are armed?...makes it a lot more tricky and less appealing.
    Tori
    • Tori
    • 11 months ago
  • If the NRA believes that more guns creates more violence then they would disagree with me. My take is that it is the culture that breeds the killer not the availability of guns. Maybe that didn't come across as I wanted it to. As for me I am far more worried about 16 year-olds with cars than I am about the availability of guns. Everyday I see teens dying in car accidents. Accidents caused by inexperience, alcohol,and speed. We need far more car control than gun control.
    scootmac
  • Finland makes the world's best and sharpest knives, and those are the Finns' weapons of choice. What is the number of yearly deaths from knife wounds in Finland? Greater than from bullets, I'd wager.
    Vierotchka
  • scootmac wrote:

    "My take is that it is the culture that breeds the killer not the availability of guns."




    And with that you're right on the money.
    Google_Bomb
  • To me it's not wrong it's just totally up to the parents. All it is is parents being parents and giving their choice and opinion..
    -peace
    thenewhippie07
  • that is not really shocking, in my opinion.
    joolan89

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