The assassination of a Dutch politician and a series of mass shootings-at a German school and at normally tranquil local legislatures in Switzerland and France-have shaken the European notion that such incidents happen only in America. Europe has strong gun laws and a long-held conceit that its citizens, if not as law-abiding as those of Singapore, are at least not like gun-toting Americans.
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