Mikeoxenormous
Diamond Member
MSN
Here is the reason why.Apartment blocks blown apart by bombs; video footage of a teenage boy being "executed" by gunmen – these are the kinds of atrocities you might expect in war-torn Syria, said Peter Wennblad in Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm).
Yet they're happening right here in Sweden: the country is experiencing a "crisis of violence" that is taking on the characteristics of civil war. Bomb attacks are a regular occurrence: 134 so far this year, up from 90 in all of 2022. Gun violence has soared to levels unheard of in other European states: 62 people died in shootings in Sweden last year, a per capita gun-murder rate roughly 30 times higher than London's.
A 'self-inflicted nightmare'
This mayhem is the product of "turf wars for control of the drug trade, driven by an influx of guns, personal vendettas and a pool of available youths, many from marginalized migrant communities", said Sune Engel Rasmussen in The Wall Street Journal (New York). Gangs like those run by Rawa Majid, the notorious ringleader known as the "Kurdish Fox" who came to Sweden from Iraqi Kurdistan as an infant and now controls his drug empire from Turkey, are "beyond the reach of prosecutors". Such gangs have rendered entire neighborhoods no-go areas for the police.
And our wonderful president, who sniff women's hair, and gropes young children, just doesnt care who is crossing our southern border. Are they from Kurdistan, or Pakistan, or Whogivesafuckistan, they are coming here to kill you. So this is why our founding fathers gave US the 2nd amendment, to defend ourselves from a government who doesnt care about US. We have to take care of ourselves.