America also has a very different history from the Netherlands, one in which guns of necessity played a major role.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote : Not really my conversation, but I thought it was also mentioned that diversity plays a factor. Holland is probably more homogeneous in terms of population make up, and probably has a higher per capita income than the places in the US where there is more gun violence.
