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posted by janrinok on Monday February 26 2018, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the big-guns dept.

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.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-violence/swedish-pm-does-not-rule-out-use-of-army-to-end-gang-violence-idUSKBN1F629L

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.


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @11:56AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @11:56AM (#644573)

    That's what Sweden (and France and Germany and many others) need. Hire volunteers with no criminal record and let them "clean" the country with any means they see fit. It will not be pretty but it will be efficient and results in a safe, again well functioning society.

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:14PM (2 children)

    by looorg (578) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:14PM (#644581)

    Have you ever read a Judge Dredd comic (or even seen the movies)? The societies depicted are far from well functioning. You might as well suggest that all countries institute a "purge night" ala the movie "the Purge". Why not just go for Logans Run and terminate everyone above the age of 30 (age varies between the book and the movie)?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:31PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:31PM (#644588)

      Read the comics, played the pinball.
      I admit it was a bit tongue-in-cheek but true nonetheless. If those pro-white & pro-safe-sweden-as-it-was-40-years-ago did the job with legal immunity there's no doubt it wouldn't result in a model society.
      Of course it's not going to happen this way but just results in more anarchy until it all boils over for the average Real Swede and shit happens.

      • (Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:49PM

        by looorg (578) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:49PM (#644593)

        I gathered as much. It's just that as noted the comic isn't really a depiction of a well functioning society. That said as you have noted I'm almost a bit amazed at people "fleeing" to Europe. Yes they probably think that we are stupid and we have wealth and we are giving it away. They tend to forget that part about how we started two world wars and industrialized genocide. There is quite clearly a limit to how much shit we are willing to take and I wouldn't be all to surprised if that limit is rapidly approaching again, wouldn't want to be non-white and non-christian then -- shit ain't going to be pretty for you if you are not. If we know anything it is that people in general don't really mind a good purge now and then if it's for the right reasons and they have few if any qualms about it. I'm not entirely sure if someone started to shot darkies left and right that a large part of the population would even give two shits, they would probably see it as natural selection or taking out the garbage.

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:08PM (2 children)

    by Wootery (2341) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:08PM (#644637)

    So you're the kind of person who looks at something like the Indonesian purge of 1965–1966 [wikipedia.org] and thinks That's just what Europe needs!

    You're a troll, of course. I know I shouldn't bother.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:54PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:54PM (#644719)

      Not a troll, just a misanthropist. I truly believe Indonesia is now vastly better than it would be had not the mass killings of people with a very harmful ideology happened.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @09:45PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @09:45PM (#644821)

        You just solidified yourself as an idiot who obviously doesn't pay attention. It saddens me you're probably a citizen of my own country.