Jesus Chirst you guys, it was a few comments, no need to start spitting out you constitution. Let's agree to disagree. We prefer to be unarmed and keep our country safe, and you prefer to be armed and keep your country dangerous.

As a fellow Dutch person, honestly seeing police carrying weapons frightens me. Imagine if half your country is armed!

@pokethebear even though the Netherlands is very safe, there is obviously no guarentee that I will be 100% safe. But this largely comes down to common sense. Objective Safety is largely based on numbers, but the feeling of being safe is a subjective one. Instead of seeing a potential rapist in men I pass late at night, I prefer to refer to the facts, knowing that the chances of being raped by a stranger are very slim. I think it would be very emotionally exhausting for anyone to constantly look for danger everywhere. When a nation writes a constitution, it sets standards for itself with regards to safety and well-being. If you are looking for a dependable nation when it comes to safety, I would recommend Japan.

We don't need that sort of surveillance, because our government passes laws and regulations that keeps crime under control, and thus I am not under a constant threat of death. What good is your government if it can't even provide a safe country to live in? I don't know what your image is of Northern Europe, but I can assure you things are very different here. Have you considered moving to another country where you do not constantly feel unsafe?

But why would they need to? Isn't it the governments job to make sure the towns are safe?

Shit you guys. In my country you are not even allowed to have knives of a certain size without a permit.

I think you're making a generalization. Some of our grandparents might have fought in wars, but not any of mine, and not most of the grandparents of the people I know. I don't think there is something inherently wrong about looking back and admit that we've mistakes. It's true that people born to the millenial generation have to had to fight in any conflicts, but I'd say that's more due to the current political landscape if anything else, that we have helped to shape. Would it have been better if there had been a draft for the Afganistan war, for example?

That's three generations at least.

The UN acts if there is a servere violation. For example the situation between Isreal and Palestine.

Thank you

How some people can gaze upon something so beautiful and think 'bomb' is beyond me.

Come back. We need tourists to smoke our weed and dig holes in our beaches.

They were looking a bit dumb with their finger and their thumb and the shape of an L on their foreheads.