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How Finland Handles School Shootings

Candles lit for victims of 2008 Kauhajoki school shooting. (Photo: REUTERS/Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen)

Candles are lit in the evening by the memorial next to the Kauhajoki vocational school in Kauhajoki in September 2009 for those killed in the 2008 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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