In both New York Times and French Le Monde's articles about the event, "shockwaves" are used to describe the reactions when it became clear that several people had been killed in the shooting.
Both newspapers emphasize that this kind of mass murder occurs very rarely in Sweden, but simultaneously point out that gun violence has generally increased significantly in recent years. A similar observation is made by CNN, which writes in its article that "Scandinavian authorities have worked to combat gun violence after an increase in deadly, gang-related shootings".
Spanish El País notes that Sweden has been "combating organized crime" for several years, but that "mass shootings are a very rare phenomenon". To find examples of other types of violent incidents of this kind, the newspaper writes about the school attack in Trollhättan in 2015, where "a 21-year-old masked perpetrator, with racist motives, killed a teacher's assistant and a child and injured two others".
The Guardian writes, on its part, that "school attacks are rare in Sweden" but that there have been deadly incidents, where, in addition to Trollhättan, the attack on a high school in Malmö in 2022, when two women were killed by an 18-year-old student, is also mentioned.
