In Sweden, death toll caused by gun violence is rapidly escalating
FOX NewsSEP 12 2023
A teenager was shot and wounded at a school in Southern Stockholm, Sweden, on Wednesday morning.
The victim, a student, was taken to the hospital. The suspect, also a student of the school, was apprehended by police following the shooting.
Police believe that the situation is under control, with no further suspects involved. The school is no longer an active crime scene.
Sweden has had an extremely distressing rise in violence in the last several years. Despite a large amount of reporting suggesting that a sizeable portion of the violent crime in the Nordic country is due to gang violence and illegal drugs, authorities have seemingly refused to acknowledge a correlation with Sweden's lenient immigration policies since 2015.
There are many factors behind Sweden's rise in violent crime, including poverty and lack of integration and opportunity for some marginalized groups. Xenophobic fear-mongering will do very little to help this issue. Instead, a more impactful step would be to increase the early intervention efforts to provide at-risk youth with support and resources.