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> The Netherlands has strict gun control and still has mass shootings.

I can think of two in my lifetime. The one you mentioned in Utrecht, and the Alphen aan den Rijn one in 2011. Even accounting for population size it's nowhere near the severity/frequency of the US.

> Gun control did nothing to stop that.

Gun control obviously isn't going to stop every attack. That doesn't mean it can't prevent many of them.

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In post WW2 history we only had two mass shootings and the Moluccan train hijacking in 1975 and 1977.

Don’t forget everything that isn’t covered by the media. In 2018 we had 527 registered shooting incidents. In the last 18 months we had 44 gun related deaths. In 2018 the police seized 76 automatic weapons such as the AR-15.

For a country with strict gun control that’s a lot.

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