The New Year festivities in the Netherlands have left two people dead, dozens with serious injuries and destroyed Amsterdam’s historic Vondelkerk church.

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      4 months ago

      That’s crazy, I thought Europe didn’t have a gun problem…

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        4 months ago

        They have plenty of guns, they just don’t go around murdering the fuck out of each other.

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        4 months ago

        Most of those shells, if not all, we’re most likely blanks. You can get a license to own a gun and blanks very easy in Germany

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          4 months ago

          I see. At least they weren’t firing live rounds into the air. That would be dangerous…