Sweden appears to have a gun pipeline from the Balkans, while in Germany illegal firearms aren't as prevalent (as of yet). Statistics on knife killings would paint a different picture.

To reuse the link from a sister comment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

...when you sort by "Rate", Germany is at spot 161, Hungary at 164, and Sweden at 144 (and for comparison's sake and because it's kinda interesting/surprising: Russia and the US are also identical at spot 52 and 53). So even when taking knife killings into account the argument doesn't make sense, Germany is much closer (actually pretty much identical) to "poster child" Hungary than Sweden.

That does not seem to be true. The most recent good data seems to be from 2019[0] and shows Germany with 0.34 stabbing deaths per 100k people, one of the lowest in the world, and lower than Sweden (0.35) and Hungary (0.41).

[0]https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-...

What are you trying to say?

Germany has basically as many privately owned guns as sweden per capita. Germany is nearer to the Balkans. It hosts a million people from a war country (Ukraine). There are lots of illegal weapons.

One important difference between Germany and Sweden: youth unemployment is much much lower in Germany.

Similar developments as in Sweden can be seen in the Netherlands, due to the drug trade.

Background to the situation in Sweden: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/27/sweden-seeks-t...