How Finland Handles School Shootings
Candles lit for victims of 2008 Kauhajoki school shooting. (Photo: REUTERS/Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen)
Residents of Newtown, Connecticut, have responded to last week’s massacre with an outpouring of grief and solidarity.
The response mirrors the way copmmunities arund the globe respond to violence, regardless of country and culture.
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Jim Hawdon, a professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech who has compared responses to mass shootings here in the US, and in Finland.
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