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At the time that police questioned the shooter the only the videos of him shooting at the shooting range had been found. So legally confiscating the weapon would have been borderline impossible. As far as youtube is concerned there are quite a number of videos of someone shooting at shooting range. Determining their nationalities and how big of a threat they pose is again very difficult. To my knowledge posting shooting videos isn't very common among Finns but does happen, and mostly they're just harmless documentations of one's hobbies. Hunting is fairly common in Finland, but so far legal weapons purchased for hunting have been used very rarely in criminal activities, at least to my knowledge. Though running around in urban areas with a .12 shotgun does have a tendency to draw attention and it's hugely illegal. Getting permits for handguns for hunting purposes is borderline impossible. Hunting actually is more regulated than sport shooting for some reason. The real question is, IMO, who the hell gives out the weapon permits? Within a year, two very similar cases and both with a legal weapon. "Sorry you seem to be mentally unstable. We can't give you a permit for .45, have .22 instead." I'm quite sure that legislation about granting weapon permits and owning firearms is going to change. And the regulation of smaller caliber weapons for sporting uses is going to be seriously tightened. Don't know what can be done for already granted permits though. |
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2008-09-23, 15:02 | Link #802 | |
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I dunno if anyone here surfs to /b/, but I saw a thread there made by anon about planning to execute this plan. I saw and read that thread around 1 AM Pacific time. EDIT: I saw that thread 1 AM Pacific time September 23. Last edited by mg1942; 2008-09-23 at 16:31. |
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2008-09-23, 16:32 | Link #804 | |
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2008-09-25, 17:21 | Link #805 |
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Liftoff.
Congratulation to China for another successful launch. I sincerely hope the Chinese astronaut will have a successful "space-walk". We need more competition other than US and Russia so the space age can come quick.
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2008-09-25, 23:55 | Link #807 |
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White Rabbit candy halts sales, as products under scrutiny for melamine contamination
We often have "White Rabbit" brand candy in our snack trays..... well, oops.
Probably ought to read this before your next run for asian sweets. http://english.people.com.cn/90001/9...2/6506872.html
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2008-09-26, 00:15 | Link #809 |
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The Chinese leadership had *better* get a grip on this problem --- you want to piss off "the people"? Don't do anything about threats to their *one* child you limited them to.
The earthquakes revealed the shoddy corrupt building practices permitted by local officials; the central government tried to hush it.... now they have this melamine crisis on their hands. Each time people are going to get more angry and once they lose their one child -- they really have nothing to lose by going ballistic. Playing with fire....
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2008-09-26, 00:33 | Link #813 | |
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2008-09-26, 16:51 | Link #817 |
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How is this the fault of the government? It shows that they need to put some regulations into place along with agencies to enforce them, but the government wasn't the entity that decided it would be great to add melamine to milk. I believe it was Hu Jintao, the president of the PRC, who was quoted as saying that the dairy companies were "heartless" and I'm afraid I'd have to agree. This was a rotten business decision. It's the government's duty to protect the people from things like this and the government certainly failed here, but I don't believe that businessmen should be forgiven for lacking ethics just because of their profession.
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2008-09-26, 17:00 | Link #818 | |
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2008-09-26, 17:08 | Link #819 |
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I heard about pirates seizing civilian cargoships in south east asia, but this is impressive, Somalia's pirates seize 33 tanks (BBC)
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2008-09-26, 17:15 | Link #820 | |
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Government (or "the baron of the land") has an implied contract with the people ("serfs") to provide some modicum of protection in exchange for the right to rule ("see possible lynch mob"). If the people are threatened by bandits ("companies with vile idiots in charge") and the government does nothing or, worse, tries to shut anyone up who complains --- it often doesn't go well after that. Its always a rotten long-term business decision to kill/hurt your customers.... but it comes from the decision-makers in the company just looking at their own personal interests. I'd like to think the PRC government is learning after the earthquake nonsense... but more likely its just a different set of agencies more on the ball.
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