Mark Steyn on Sweden

There seem to have been an awful lot of bystanders to Miss Lindh's stabbing - in broad daylight, in a crowded department store, after being pursued by her assailant up an escalator. Granted that many of the people bystanding around were women, it still seems odd - at least from my side of the Atlantic - that no one attempted to intervene or halt the blood-drenched killer as he calmly left the store.

And he gets to at least part of problem.

This isn't an argument for guns, it's more basic than that: it's the difference between a citizen and a nanny-state baby

Found via the Country Store