== Copycat? == 

 I do not think the BBC news source is enough to call this a copycat shooting. 

 It may bear some similarities to the Jokela school shooting, but there are also numerous differences. 

 *Jokela was a high school 
 **Kauhajoki is a vocational college (TAFE right?). 
 *Auvinen used a SIG Mosquito 
 **Saari used a Walther P22 (ok, weak, both .22 semi-automatic pistols). 
 *Auvinen used a gun alone 
 **Saari is suggested to have used incendinary devices to start a fire. 
 *Auvinen did not conceal his identity from my understanding 
 **Saari wore a balaclava. 
 *Auvinen considered himself an extremist god-like revolutionary judging humanity 
 **No similar motivation appears to be from Saari. He seems a vindictive gun/war-fanatic obsessed with death and murder. 

 There is nothing more than journalistic speculation that this is a true copycat event, where Saari has deliberately gone to lengths to imitate Auvinen. Or am I misunderstanding the use of teh term ;ndash will all Finnish school-shootings be considered Auvinen copycats?