At Least 10 Dead in Sweden’s ‘Worst Mass Shooting,’ Prime Minister Says

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/world/europe/sweden-school-shooting.html

By Christina Anderson and Lynsey Chutel
February 4, 2025

A shooting at an adult education campus in central Sweden on Tuesday left at least 10 people dead and injured an undisclosed number of others, in what the prime minister called the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.

The suspect was among the dead, the country’s justice minister, Gunnar Strommer, said. But the authorities released few other details, including the person’s identity and a possible motive.

While Sweden has strict gun laws, with licenses usually limited to hunting rifles, criminologists have linked a rise in shootings to the illegal drug trade and stockpiles of firearms smuggled in from postwar Balkan countries, Eastern Europe and Turkey.

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But I've been repeatedly told such atrocities are only in America.

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In reports on the shooting, TV4 News said the suspect was aged 35 and had a weapons license.

News outlet Expressen said people who knew him described him as a “loner”.

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Well that fellow just single-handed made future gun licenses next to impossible to get for the rest of the country. By the sound of the shots, it was a semi-auto gun (or more than one gun). 

[jmyrlefuller]

In reports on the shooting, TV4 News said the suspect was aged 35 and had a weapons license.

News outlet Expressen said people who knew him described him as a “loner”.

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Well that fellow just single-handed made future gun licenses next to impossible to get for the rest of the country. By the sound of the shots, it was a semi-auto gun (or more than one gun).

Oh, boy. Here comes the "White Male Incel to Blame" headline.