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    Default Re: Another School shooting in Finland

    Quote Originally Posted by Martok View Post
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    Vis-a-vis geography: Actually, it was taught in my school distrcit that Finland *is* part of Scandinavia -- despite the majority of Finns being more closely related to Hungarians & Kazakhs than Danes, Norwegians, & Swedes. I'm not sure why that is, though.
    Well, Finns are finno-ugrians (just like Hungarians, Karelians, Estonians etc.) while Swedes, Danes and Norwegians are germanics (just like Germans). Scandinavia is a geographic entity consisting of the peninsula formed by Sweden and Norway, and really has nothing to do with ethnicity.

    Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito
    The saddest part is that the police had brought him in for questioning and then determined they had no reason to hold him or confiscate his weapons and let him go.
    They had no legal support to do so, and if you're answer to that is "But still", that leads us into the debate on what rules should be broken and what rules shouldn't be broken.
    Last edited by Innocentius; 09-25-2008 at 18:59.
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