> yet is was ranked the safest country in the world.
Don't trust any statistics you haven't fabricated yourself.
While you are unlikely to be shot in a robbery in Finland there are many categories where Finland is far from being the safest country in the world:
* suicide rate is still very high. e.g. 50% higher than Sweden (despite having gone down a lot in the last 20 years). Is it a safe society were people end up killing themselves?
* murder rate is one of the highest ones in Western Europe. Well, Finland would like belong to Western Europe, although geographically it is far in the East, deep in the vodka belt, which is part of the explanation. Firearms might well be "underrepresented" in the murders, but that doesn't make it any safer for those being murdered.
* drowning rate is high (a combination of too much alcohol and many lakes)
* dying in building fires is more common than in many other countries (again too much alcohol so you cannot leave the bed lit by a cigarette is not a good starting point)
* road traffic is at most mid-range in European comparison. Nothing close to being the safest one.
Don't trust any statistics you haven't fabricated yourself.
While you are unlikely to be shot in a robbery in Finland there are many categories where Finland is far from being the safest country in the world:
* suicide rate is still very high. e.g. 50% higher than Sweden (despite having gone down a lot in the last 20 years). Is it a safe society were people end up killing themselves?
* murder rate is one of the highest ones in Western Europe. Well, Finland would like belong to Western Europe, although geographically it is far in the East, deep in the vodka belt, which is part of the explanation. Firearms might well be "underrepresented" in the murders, but that doesn't make it any safer for those being murdered.
* drowning rate is high (a combination of too much alcohol and many lakes)
* dying in building fires is more common than in many other countries (again too much alcohol so you cannot leave the bed lit by a cigarette is not a good starting point)
* road traffic is at most mid-range in European comparison. Nothing close to being the safest one.