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[q=Insane guy]Don't blame the movies I see, the music I hear, the games I play or the books I read. No, they had nothing to do with this[/q]

People are probably still going to blame those things

"OMG! He played Doom!?! Let's ban the game FOREVER"

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Originally posted by uniteatteri
The bodycount is currently at 8 people. 5 male students, 2 female student, and the headmaster of the school. Other injuries are light, except the killer himself. After shooting at his own head, he is now in critical condition, chance of survival being close to zero.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting Another Harry Potter-inspired killing.

Oh, and how the deuce is there already a Wikipedia article?

[discountviagraman]

Originally posted by Oerdin

There were school shooting before Columbine. I can think of one which occured in Stockton, CA a few years before which featured a guy pissed off that he had to pay, what he considered to much, child support. He's response was to shoot up a school totally unrelated to his kids. :\ There was the University of Texas shooting 1 Aug 1966.

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[q=Wiki]The shooter was an 18-year-old male student, named Pekka-Eric Auvinen who attended the school[/q]

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Originally posted by Adagio
A common name in Finland.

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Not anymore. Pekka will soon be as popular as the name Adolf after 1945.

[XinordiX]

Is it your real name?

Originally posted by Adagio
Ok, I just thought it was a nick-name... never heard that name before Me too, it always seemed like a cartoon caracter name.

Spec.

[wp6Eg2Fm]

Yeah, I heard about it on CFC and had to make sure it wasn't sweet loveable Polytubby Pekka.

[nasxbrtyol]

Right on, Spec.

I wonder how these psychos are so detail oriented. I mean, he had planned this for a good while. He posted his youtube video, that he had edited himself and everything, yesterday. Naming it Jokela Massacre with a date and everything. Got that permit for a gun, wrote manifestos, just planned everything and it took a lot of time as well, you can' tjust wing it.

So as far as people flipping out and doign somethign crazy, this dude as a cold and calculating one adn he didn't freeze up during the execution time. So.... a true psycho. It always gets me though, with the other school shootings as well... why would you kill others when you just want to kill yourself? To make the news? Is there a fantasy where you are the #1 news in many countries for a while that makes you do it?

Also, if you think you are ubermensch and you need to waste some people, why would you then kill yourself afterwards?

[Marinausa]

sad

the shooter just died in the hospital btw

[Duseshoug]

Did he kill random people or kids who had made fun of him?

[kesFockplek]

He uploaded a video to the internet and said : I am an existentialist cynic, I am willing to die for my things

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Originally posted by Wezil


Good start but why did you follow it with this?



Stop giving these nuts the attention they desire. I won't read his "manifesto".

That's what I did.
I hesitated then decided not to read it, for the same reason.

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He declares himself a social darwinist, then he shoots himself in the head? What exactly was he trying to tell us?

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Originally posted by Lul Thyme




That's what I did.
I hesitated then decided not to read it, for the same reason. I read it. Pekka was (it seems) informed about the concepts he wrote about. His manifesto is more coherent than the ramblings of that Korean guy who went on a rampage recently. It is even somewhat novel as far as motives go: he wanted to replace the existing governments with technocracies in which the smart ruled over the dumb

I don't think that he is going to start a mass movement among teens with that kind of philosophy, but you never know.