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The Netherlands - 5 Dead 17 Wounded

Posted on the 11 April 2011 by Mikeb302000
via Reuters
The 24-year-old gun club member then shot and killed himself.
"This is something you usually see in America, not in the Netherlands," said local resident Martin van der Ploeg as he fixed his motorbike near the mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, 46 km (29 miles) south of Amsterdam.
That's the first thing everybody thinks. In ten languages, that's the first thing people say when hearing about this story.
We have the gun-rights extremists and their big daddy the NRA to thank for that.
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