While this does indeed sound like a problem for Sweden and something they will have to fix, it's worth pointing out that by my calculation the US fatal assault by fire arm rate is 12X the rate that is causing a crisis in Sweden.
People quote articles like this in the US to pretend that the EU is suffering from some dystopian crime wave but (from the perspective of the US) the opposite is true.
Some people are just US-centric. They believe everything should be looked at through the lens of how it affects the US. It's just how they are.
Explosions tend to be vastly less precise than shootings and unintended victims are more of a rule than an exception.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/bomb-experts-c...
Czechia has the same population as Sweden. Such series of intentional explosions would be considered insane here.
Trends matter, too. Sweden used to be known as the country where people don't lock their doors. Very high trust societies are rare and their demise due to rising crime is harmful to entire humanity.
Source (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-...)
Gun death rate in France is 27 per million.
Death from assault by firearm in France is 2 per million.
To compare the US to Sweden we need rate of death from assault by firearm for the US.
btw, we've somehow been back-watered here on the site. I can't even find this thread in my profile, and it's only shown on the main page for this comment as a part of another thread.
Hackernews has gotten weird lately.
This thread is collapsed by default, but I can still see it.
Add explosives, hand grenades, kidnapping...
US does not have a big problem with organized crime!
There are regional differences! Fire arms are heavily regulated and relatively hard to get in EU. We are close to war zones, hand grenades are easier to smuggle, and are used in Sweden.
If you include murders by knife, London is worse than US!
Edit: also you wrote "assault" that could include anything from armed robbery without health injury, to self defense. Apples and oranges!
Quick google search brings up the following "All in all, there were 77 incidents of detonated hand grenades in Sweden during the six-year observation period, in which nine individuals were injured and one killed."
is this what you are talking about? Doesn't sound that dramatic.
Seems like you are just trolling. Especially with the throwaway account, hard to take what you are saying seriously.