AP ignores Arab surname of Finnish shooter while urging more gun control
 

The American Thinker ran this short article on a recent Finnish mass shooting and how the AP thinks the correct thing to do is ban guns in the country. This despite Finland having one of the lowest crime rates on the continent simultaneously with high levels of gun ownership.

AP ignores Arab surname of Finnish shooter while urging more gun control
Randall Hoven
Some guy named Ibrahim Shkupolli allegedly killed his ex-wife, went to a shopping mall and randomly killed four more people, then went home and killed himself. This all happened in Helsinki, Finland.

The Associated Press was not satisfied with simple reporting on this story, however. It went on to note that Finland has 1.6 million firearms in private hands for a population of 5.3 million. It also notes that "politicians, social workers and religious leaders have all urged tighter gun laws."

Let's go to the tape - the most recent International Crime Victimization Survey sponsored by the United Nations. In overall crime victimization, Finland ranked 22 out of the 30 surveyed. It's crime rate was below England's, Denmark's, Canada's, Sweden's, Norway's and that of 16 other countries - none of whom are famous for loose gun laws.

The city of Helsinki in particular had a lower overall crime rate than 11 other major cities, including London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo.

The ICVS does not seem to monitor murder, but it does monitor "contact" crimes, including robbery and assault. In robbery, Finland came in with the 3rd lowest rate among 30 countries. Only Japan and Italy had lower robbery rates. Helsinki itself had an average robbery rate for major international cities, below that of London, Brussels, Lisbon and Zurich.

In sexual assault, Finland's rate was half the average rate - below its Scandinavian neighbors of Sweden and Norway, as well as Denmark and Canada.

In assaults and threats, Finland was once again well below average, and specifically below its Scandinavian neighbors.

The Guardian links to a spreadsheet that does have homicide rates for 199 countries. Finland ranks 127 on that list.

If the AP wants to connect some dots, I suggest it pay more attention to the name "Ibrahim Shkupolli" and less to Finland's gun laws.

Re: AP ignores Arab surname of Finnish shooter while urging more gun control
 

Well, I hope everyone here is fully aware of who owns AP and their agenda. The difficulty is getting the other 99% of Americans to understand the Rothschild story and how it affects them. They control the currency, they control the news and entertainment media, and their greatest trick was convincing the world that they don't exist.

Re: AP ignores Arab surname of Finnish shooter while urging more gun control
 

I did not read that at all in the AP piece

But then again a person can read anything into anything the read

Re: AP ignores Arab surname of Finnish shooter while urging more gun control
 

Two points:

1) Shkupolli is not an Arabic surname, it is Albanian. Different ethnicity entirely.
2) No ethnic group has a lock on homicidal rampages, so I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.

Re: AP ignores Arab surname of Finnish shooter while urging more gun control
 

Finland is one of the few Europeans countries that has widespread firearms ownership. My gut tells me this was more false flag crap intended to disarm them. Like what happened in the UK and Australia.