"Gun violence" growing in Europe
Once an almost exclusive US product, "gun violence" is now rearing its ugly head in traditionally "peaceful" European countries
Once an almost exclusive American crisis, gun violence is now expanding rapidly in Europe. Within the past 24 hours a gunman in Rotterdam killed three innocents and the Swedish government took the unprecedented step of summoning her armed forces chief to help with curbing street gangland killings.
News of the day has been identifying alarming European trends of spreading gun violence after a long period of “peace” that was halted in 2012. A research project into gun violence, conducted by the University of Leiden, emerged from the desire to reverse this scarcity of gun violence, in-depth, studies in Europe.
Both independent researchers and national European governments are accelerating investigations into this phenomenon hoping to devise effective policies of curbing it. But, easy solutions aren’t at hand and, as US experiences tell us, it is a Herculean political, social, and policing undertaking to promote gun control and put the brakes on the growth of the numbers of heavily armed criminals, psychopaths, ethnic terrorists, and “revenge warriors.”
As with all pressing and seemingly unsolvable crises, gun violence grows out of both global and national trends. Burgeoning political and religious terrorism, lethal economic crises, the scourge of illegal immigration, and the gradual deterioration of the established “social contract” in advanced European countries, increasingly translate into random gunfire aimed at all and sundry. To boot, firearm violence is now also identified as a global health issue causing an estimated 250,000 deaths each year worldwide.
Comparing America to Europe, when it comes to gun violence, is hardly a straightforward game of facts and figures.
While Europe was the theater of two world wars, and large and small civil and ethnic conflicts in the 20th century alone, European gun violence statistics in peacetime were always quite distant from the “Far West” atmosphere prevalent in America, where gun ownership is a fundamental constitutional principle of personal freedom.
The US Constitution’s Second Amendment, protecting the right to keep and bear arms, remains an almost religious contract between the US Government and US citizens. The idea of an armed household is an almost religiously accepted and preserved principle, with individual states having laws in the books steel-plating the so-called “castle doctrine” that offers legal protection to gun owners shooting and killing, or wounding, violent criminal intruders.
Illegal immigration from basket-case countries exacerbates the gun violence crisis exponentially. Sweden is a prominent victim of this trend struggling with gangs of almost exclusively Moslem illegal migrants battling each other with guns causing serious collateral damage to innocent bystanders.
A recent report on Sweden’s gun violence scourge found that the main culprits of this latest crisis are overwhelmingly Middle Eastern young thugs entering the country either illegally or by exploiting the classic key of “humanitarian refugee” status. The net result of this criminally damaged human intake is the cracking of a once sturdy pacific social contract and burgeoning violent street shooting crime.
The European Union, well known for its gargantuan bureaucratic output of reports, targeted analyses, and nonstop publication of regulations, laws, and directives, is strangely quiet on such a critical issue as gun violence.
This reluctance may be, partially at least, to Eurocrat hesitation in speaking the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, on the deleterious affects of illegal, overwhelmingly Moslem, migration into the Continent.
As you might have already observed, Mussulmanism, both aggressive and “peaceful,” is now a dearest cause of Western “humanitarians” welcoming it as a proper and, indeed necessary, ingredient of cross-eyed and disastrous “multiculturalism”— the very same retired Chancellor Angela Merkel publicly admitted, in 2010, that it is “unworkable” as a national “integration” policy, an instant that the UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman reminded us recently during a keynote speech she delivered in Washington on asylum reform.
Asking the military to support police forces in law enforcement is proof that the situation in Sweden reached a critical level. It is also another proof the denial of the existence of "no-go zones" (Sharia) in Stockholm and other parts of the country is not valid and that multiculturalism failed the same way it failed in the UK and France (among others). And the EU? What?