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Erhm.. That's so wrong in so many ways!

I wouldn't blame anyone specific other than politics and religion. These two factors are really to blame for alot of crap going on in the world nowadays.

My neighbourhood is going apeshit right now though and has been caught in a bad circle the last few years.. I mean, a friend of a friend got shot in the arse for 200:- SEK (~€22/$30) just yesterday. Another friend was almost stabbed in the throat because "You stole my seat.. You bastard!" while being in the pub having a beer.

No respect, no love, drugs and just people feeling down/other problems and not getting the right help is the main problem in Sweden.

I almost got into a fight New Years Eve because these kids from the age 10 up to 14, were lighting these rockets and just threw them around and ran like hell. One rocket exploded just outside my window so I went outside and said to the group of ~15-20 people; "Don't do that.. I will find you.. I know who you are and I know most of your bigger brothers and you'll pay for the damage and besides it's illegal to shoot fireworks around here and you'll need an permit just to fire an single rocket everywhere else and I betcha that not a single one here is 18, so just you guys having this firework is illegal aswell"

And the first answer I get goes like this; "This is Sweden so if you don't got a photo showing my face and the rocket.. You can't do shit about it and besides it's not like robbing a bank, so the worst punishment I'd recive would probably be ['Don't do that in the future']".

And the worst thing is that he's right, I know his bigger brother that said it.. His older brother robbed an small store with an knife and badly beat the person. He got 11 months for it.

Another friend of mine stabbed an person in the neck and then chased him for ~200 meters and screaming "I'll kill ya!" for no reason whatsoever (Yes, for no reason whatsoever). He got 14 months in an minimumsecurity-prison.. The guy he stabbed was hospitalised for ~4 months after the event and still has problems.

It sounds like my old friends are really crazy idiots, which they are.. But if they recived the help they needed from the start when things were going wrong for them.. I betcha things would be alot different for them and as I still live in my neighbourhood I grew up in I see most of my old friends from time to time and we'll have a chat about life and stuff. Just today I met my oldest (and once closest) friend, oh man. He's been using methamphetamin for years now and has been in jail several times and been messing around with gangs and such but it was nice to see him "sober" once but it's just an question of time before he goes back to his "old roots".

Blame politics and religion.