Sweden will do whatever it takes, including sending in the army, to end a wave of violence that has seen a string of deadly shootings, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in Wednesday.
Sweden's murder rate is relatively low in international terms, but gang violence has surged in recent years and Swedes are worried that the police are unable to cope.
In 2016, the latest year for which official statistics are available, 106 people were murdered in Sweden, a country of 10 million.
But Swedish TV reported there were over 300 shootings, mostly in turf battles between gangs over drugs, protection rackets and prostitution.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:29AM (2 children)
http://grammarist.com/homophones/border-vs-boarder/ [grammarist.com]
So it is your position that if all of the bed and breakfasts, all hotels and motels, dormitories, and the like were to be closed down, the criminal problem would - magically disappear? Yeah, probably so. If all those boarders were left standing in the rain, many would catch pneumonia, die, and disappear after they were dropped into holes in the ground.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:44AM (1 child)
Yes! Close the boarders, and the edgings! Block off the sedge! Eliminate the liminal. Eradicate the Frontier. Mark the Telemark! Send the convicts to face the barbarians! Erase the margins! Flush the estuaries. Open the gates! Spill the liquid that divides! Merge, Runaway, merge with the "all that is", and peace will find you. If not, it was fifty bucks well spent.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:00PM
Ότι όλα μου ακούγονται σαν Έλληνες.