One child killed, two wounded in Finland school shooting, 12-year-old boy held
Helsinki, Finland Reuters One child was killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting at a school outside the Finnish capital on Tuesday, police said, with a 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack taken into custody. The arrest of the boy was made without further violence in the Helsinki suburb of Siltamaki, four kilometres […]
Essay: US school shootings are already at a record in 2022 – with months still to go
US criminologists JAMES DENSLEY, DAVID RIEDMAN and JILLIAN PETERSON look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the increase in US school shootings in recent years…
Canada bans new handgun sales in latest gun control action
Reuters Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada took effect on Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the measure builds on earlier efforts banning handgun imports. The handgun freeze was announced in May alongside proposed legislation that would implement the nation’s strongest gun control measures in 40 years as […]
Thai PM orders tighter gun control, drugs crackdown after mass killing
Bangkok, Thailand Reuters Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday ordered law enforcement agencies to tighten gun ownership rules and crack down on drug use following a mass killing by an ex-policeman at a day care centre that left has the nation in shock. A total of 36 people including 24 children were killed in […]