When questioned about preventing school shootings, Walz suggested the U.S. look to Finland as an example of a country with a high gun ownership rate, but relatively low rate of shootings.

Finland's government is bolstering this trend ... its training days to 120,000 this year compared to three years ago. Gun ranges across the country, such as the Vantaa Reservist Association ...

Finland said on Wednesday (16 December) it would demand some exceptions from planned European Union restrictions on the use of firearms, citing national defence needs. Finland said on Wednesday ...

The flipside to this finding, however, is that high gun ownership in countries including Finland, Sweden and Switzerland do have significantly higher rates of suicide using guns. The UK and Japan ...