| Puppyroach said: ONE place with ONE handgranade is what hit the news so hard. That is extremely serious in itself, but please be rational in this and look at it with a perspective of reason. People love to use terms as "war" because it somehow make matters seem way worse than they are.
Does Sweden have big issues at the moment with gangs that clash at times? Yes, and that must be handled with in a harsh way (no, not the military, that is just idiotic and will spur even more violence).
If you ever want to look at the world through sober eyes, read the boring statistics of bra.se instead of reading what gossip newspaper write in order to get the "craziest" headline. |
I don't think it was just one grenade attack, I'm pretty sure there have been several cases of it. I understand not statistically significant, but you did capitalize "ONE".
Gang war is the term used to despite "gangs that clash at times". The word "war" may overstimulate the senses, and "clash at times" is certainly also a way of trying to dull response to it.
I am well aware of the extremely low crime rates in general Sweden, as is almost anybody that talks about "no go zones" in the country. Maybe you fail to understand that that is why it's such an interesting phenomena to people. A country, that historically and generally, is exceptionally safe is having a serious and real problem in a concentrated area that seems to be deteriorating rapidly. And it's not just murders, but also a rapid increase in sexual harassment and other crimes.
I understand that Malmo is only 3.8 murders per 100k. But it was up over 20% YoY. You have the "everything is a-okay" folks telling us that it's very low, shouldn't worry, look over there to Chicago, anybody who thinks there's a problem should sober up and shut up. Unfortunately, these are the same folks which have been caught in a number of cases suppressing major news stories that weren't favourable, and so the trust in those folks are at an all time low.
Data across the board shows that crime is low, but concentrated, and rising fast.
