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by InitialLastName 988 days ago
From [0]:

> More than 60 people died in shootings last year in Sweden, the highest figure on record.

This may be a lot of people for Sweden (~0.5 death per ~100K people); it's not a lot of people in the general sense. Per [1], 19,000 people died from gun homicides in the US in the same year (5 per 100K people). Not exactly a sign that Sweden's system is failing relative to the US.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/sweden-shooting-explosion-deadlie...

[1] https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/cdc-provisional-data-gun-s...

2 comments

I can assure you that every single Swede agrees that it's failing. People are horrified at what's happening.

Anyway, bringing up Scandinavia as one unit doesn't work anymore when there's such a big difference between Sweden and for example Norway where restorative justice is still successful.

probably have to look at the first derivative or second derivative of murders wrt time to get a sense for how people perceive the change?