Finland mourned the dead of its second school shooting in less than a year on Wednesday, and questioned whether it was time to clamp down hard on private gun ownership.
The main national daily Helsingin Sanomat replaced its usual front-page advertisement with a large picture of a woman adding a candle to a memorial in front of the school. The text above a picture of Saari read "Why?"
"The Web cannot be held responsible for this, but you can certainly ask how much the Web feeds the dark side of human nature," the newspaper said in an editorial.
Matti Saari, 22, shot and killed 10 people on Tuesday at a vocational school in Kauhajoki in western Finland - days after drawing police attention with online videos of himself at a gun range - and then turned the gun on himself.
He died later of a head wound in Tampere University Hospital.
Witnesses described a scene of panic and terror that lasted for about 90 minutes, with the school also set on fire in several areas.
College director Tapio Varmola told Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon on Wednesday there were about 20 students and one teacher in the classroom at the time.
Call to ban private handguns
Finnish media focused heavily on how police, alerted to Saari's videos, could question him on Monday but not confiscate the gun, how Saari could get a gun in the first place, and how to tighten Finland's gun law.
On Tuesday Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said Finland should consider banning private handguns altogether.
Gun ownership in Finland is among the highest in the world, but crime rates are low.
The Nordic country has a long tradition of hunting and weapons-bearing, with about 1.6 million firearms in private hands - third in the world behind only the United States and Yemen, studies show. People as young as 15 can own guns.
Finland has only started to recover from last November's school shooting, when 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed eight people, and then himself.
