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The Finnish school murder/massacre on Nov 7 2007 was
suggested as a global event by Hans Wendt. We discussed it a
bit, with me suggesting that, horrible as it is, the world
as a whole heard little about it. Hans said,
"I see your point re global event--then again, the Littleton
and Beslan
school shootings seemed a propos your intent. And the event
at Jokela high
school 30 mi. N of Helsinki does appear to get increasing
attention, even in
the U.S. at least on the second page."
"The student was known to be intelligent, interested in
weaponry and
dictatorships. No info. about siblings to date. He had
announced his plan on
YouTube, with sweatshirt visible and logo, "humanity is
overrated". His
background was average family, no criminal record. After the
murders police
found 59 casings, although he had brought along 500 rounds.
Police speculate
that he had planned on a much bigger massacre.
As for timing it was Nov. 7. He was behaving strangely by
late morning as
someone had supposedly noticed--or said so after the fact!
Then at noon
(exactly, as per one teacher) began walking from room to
room and firing,
including through closed doors. Students and teachers jumped
out of windows.
From what I have pieced together the massacre was over by 1
pm or so, the
boy died of his self-inflicted head wound soon after in a
hospital. This was
followed by hours of reaction by parents and families of the
8 (some said 9)
victims, community reaction and the other sequels, national
day of mourning,
debates beginning yesterday regarding gun laws, et al. Many
Finns own guns
(perhaps like Switzerland although fewer than in U.S. and
Yemen). However,
gun related crime is very rare and using guns in committing
such is against
the law and prosecuted; I am not so sure about U.S. state
laws in that
respect. Over the years Finnish schools (?) had one or two
violence
incidents but involving knives. His pistol was licensed
through a gun club,
purchased 2 weeks or so before, and 5.5 mm caliber. To kill
people this
would take close range and precision."
In any case, it is worth an exploration, and I specified a
period of 5 hour beginning about an hour before the shooting
started. UTC 9:00 to 13:00 (11 to 3 local). The result is a
small, irregular negative trend with Chisquare 14300.244 on
14400 df for p = 0.721 and Z = -0.586.
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