Just 24 hours after 22-year-old Matti Saari was questioned by police after he posted a disturbing YouTube video and released because he had the proper gun license, he went to a school and opened fire on students:
Saari uploaded disturbing footage onto YouTube of himself practising at a firing range and turning to the camera to proclaim: ‘You will die next.’
Worried police interviewed the second-year domestic science student about the clips - but, because he had an appropriate gun license, did not take him into custody.
Just one day later he stormed into an exam hall and opened fire with an automatic weapon before killing himself.
If police let the guy go simply because he had a license to carry, then they are idiots. He violated the law by making threats of violence, which are not covered by the freedom of speech. Gun control laws are not at fault here, a dumbass kid with dumbass parents and dumbass police are.
Very sad situation, but it shows these things happen elsewhere than in the USA.
a bit ghoulish and sensationalist, dont you think?
Unfortunately, defenseless is rarely the same as safe.
It's completely out of place. My two cents.
That's kind of the point behind laws. Yeah, the police, the parents and the kid might all have been stupid. Stupid people abound on this planet. If police always had the immediate and right answers, and parents were all intelligent, and kids never made poor decisions, laws would be obsolete. Bureaucracy - as much as we hate it - exists because it's impossible to have consistent and reaosonable thoughts on all levels of authority.
And while not really "neat," whatever the definition of that is, it's certainly an eerie and compelling piece of information.
Some stuff seems quite hard to understand...
Lets keep the the posts to very good or pleasant (the definition of neat).
That being said - here's a comment that is something completely different!:
Man, this wouldn't have happened if the police who released him didn't play all those violent video games!
(sarcasm).
Want proof?
http://www.cchr.org/video/psychiatric_drugs/Fight_for_Kids_The_Candace_Downing_Story.html
on a side note, today, i could not find little green army men. several differents stores, all the toy aisles... what? can kids no longer play with things if they don't move?
I take your point but to me the site is about 'neat' stuff therefore Neatorama.
A 'neat' bit of trivia is that Finland has the highest gun ownership per person in the world. Also they are the only nation to be at war with both the Axis and Allies in WWLastOne
I appreciate the article.
I bet if schools encouraged their students to start carrying guns we wouldn't see another thing like this for a really long time.
@sam
Here in Oz we have had all our guns removed after an incident in Tassie. We all know, the guns didn't do it an individual did. The polies ruined it for everybody. I believe weapons, even concealed, make us able to respond faster and stop this stuff. I want Oz to have nuclear weapons, even if hidden like Israel to stop this stuff at a bomb level, as we all know nuclear weapons won't do 'it', individuals will.
I don't believe in restricting gun ownership as the guns aren't the problem nor nuclear weapons. If we all had guns and nukes then perhaps we would think twice about starting 'things'.
Ok, excepting, Osama, Iran, Nth Korea, Venezuela, the Taliban, Hamas, Hizbollah, Syria, Libya, Russia, China, Charles Manson...everyone should have guns and nukes.
ps: neato, pls ban the comment, I am obv trolling.
And it's easier to kill other people with a gun than it is to take your own life. Pointing and shooting is way too easy, but this douche didn't have the guts to follow through on taking his own life. Shows how cowardly he truly is. If it weren't for the gun and the sense of power he derived from it, he wouldn't have had the balls to confront those people he killed.
Besides, it isn't like Alex posted a picture of the gunshot wounds or something.
I'm with Ted, if they want to die, why don't they just do it. Why murder innocent people, just for attention, then do it. Cowards.
Only after they've killed and find themselves in a hopeless situation - realizing what they've done and now faced with the dispair and self-loathing of their villiany (as well as the despair of facing consequence) - THEN suicide it what they want.
That's just my theory on such people's motivation and behavior pattern.
No less cowardly, no less tragic for all involved.
@bekkie: As I mentioned above, I will bet it was psychotropics that got him into that state of mind in the first place. Why in God's name would you want to send him back to those quacks for more?
It's easy to accuse this particular police man for mishandling this case. But you should get your facts right before doing so. What this man saw was not the threatening stuff, what he saw was just a seemingly normal guy practicing at a shooting range.
Furthermore, it's hard for any one police to cull out nutcases like this in interviews. Matti Saari fooled many other people as well, including the school principal and Matti's school friends, most of which thought Matti was just a normal boy and didn't feel he was in any way suspicious.
just a guy, you've got a good point. I think what they do is they back themselves into a corner. This guy - nobody would care if he just shot himself in his apartment. He wants to be noticed, but he also doesn't have the balls to shoot himself without first building himself up.
So, he goes and kills a bunch of people he never liked, and with the cops on their way, he can finally find the "courage" to take his own life. He's gone past the point of no return, and forced himself to die or face the consequences of his actions. At that point, death becomes the easier option for him, and he's able to pull the trigger.
Still a coward.