Finland mourned the dead of its second school shooting in less than a year yesterday, 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 Mr 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 paper 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. Finnish media focused heavily on how police, alerted to Mr Saari's videos, could question him on Monday but not confiscate the gun, how Mr Saari could get a gun in the first place, and how to tighten Finland's gun law.