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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

the main factor is the country and population's wealth: wealthier countries with a small economic inequality among classes have way less violent crimes than others. One of the main drivers of crime is poverty. Sweden is a happy and wealthy country, but others like the UK, who opened the doors to a lot of immigrants, brought in a social inequality that favoured crime.

I totally agree, poverty and economic inequality is indeed a huge reason for rise of crime (if there is one). I would however claim that immigration in itself is not the major issue, but rather how the state/government/society deals with it. Sweden is one of the most open countries in the world when it comes to refugees and immigrants. Of course we have lots of problems that stems from segregation, poverty and alienation... but arming oneself is not the answer. We are talking about a completely different dimension when it comes to these things.
Sweden is not at all that different from the UK in terms on immigrants, in the UK 8.982% immigrants in comparison of national population, Sweden 12.3%

But again, having a society where we have less of economic inequality and poverty is probably the best medicine.. ..sure we have a high tax rate in Sweden, but dare I say ( i have heard it before)... we are no communists LOL

PS again: this is NOT a "my country is better than yours" post.