Finnish School Tragedy

As a mark of national mourning, the Finnish flag flies at half-staff as a military police officer stands guard at Kauhajoki Vocational High School where a 22-year-old gunman focused his violence against women, killing eight female students at the school Tuesday and shooting another in the head. The slaughter that left 10 people and the shooter dead was Finland's second deadly school shooting in less than a year.

People light candles near the Kauhajoki Vocational High School in Kauhajoki, Finland, on Wednesday Sept. 24, 2008. The government pledged to tighten Finland's gun laws and keep mentally unstable people from obtaining firearms following the country's second school massacre in less than a year.

A young woman reacts after placing a candle alongside other tributes outside Kauhajoki Vocational High School in Kauhajoki, Finland, Wednesday Sept. 24, 2008. Finland's prime minister called for stricter gun laws Wednesday as investigators revealed that the 22-year-old gunman focused his violence against women, killing eight female students at the school and shooting another in the head.

Children react as they look at candles and tributes outside Kauhajoki Vocational High School in Kauhajoki, Finland, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008.

Women react as they look at candles and tributes outside Kauhajoki Vocational High School in Kauhajoki, Finland, Wednesday Sept. 24, 2008.

Young women react after laying candles and flowers alongside other tributes outside Kauhajoki Vocational High School in Kauhajoki, Finland, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008.

An emergency vehicle, right, rushes to the scene of a school shooting in Kauhajoki, Finland, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. A gunman opened fire at students at a vocational school for adults in western Finland, killing 10 people before shooting himself, authorities said. Witnesses said panic broke out as the hooded gunman entered the school and began firing.

A police officer stands in front of a school building in Kauhajoki, Finland, the scene of a shooting Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. A gunman opened fire Tuesday at students at a vocational school for adults in western Finland, killing 10 people before shooting himself, authorities said. The shootings began just before 11 a.m. local time with about 150 students at the school.

Police officers and vehicles are seen at a vocational high school in Kauhajoki, Finland, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, following the shooting. Kauhajoki is 180 miles northwest of Helsinki.

Local residents gather following a shooting at a vocational high school in Kauhajoki, Finland, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.

Police vehicles at a school in Kauhajoki, Finland, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, the scene of the shooting.

An emergency vehicle heads to the scene of a school shooting In Kauhajoki, Finland, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.

The scene outside a school in Kauhajoki, Finland, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, following the shooting.

This is an undated aerial view of the Kauhajoen palvelualojen oppilaitos school where the shooting took place in Kauhajoki, Finland, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.

This map locates Kauhajoki, Finland, site of the school shooting.