Sweden: Suspect Apprehended After School Shooting
Sweden: Suspect Apprehended After School Shooting at Swedish School
The Facts
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.
The Spin
Sweden has had an extremely distressing rise in violence in the last several years. Despite a large amount of datareporting suggesting that a sizeable portion of the violent crime in the Nordic country is committeddue byto peoplegang withviolence immigrantand backgroundsillegal drugs, authorities have seemingly refused to acknowledge thea strong correlation betweenwith Sweden's lenient immigration policies since 2015, and the rise in violent crime.
There are likely many factors behind Sweden's rise in violent crime, chiefincluding amongst them being poverty, unemployment, social exclusion, and lack of integration and opportunity for some marginalized groups. Xenophobic fear -mongering will do very little to actually help this issue. Instead, a more impactful step would be to increase the early intervention efforts to provide at -risk youth with increased support and resources to avoid becoming involved with crime.
