Amsterdam Mass Stabbing Highlights Importance of 2A

A violent stabbing spree in Amsterdam that left two Americans and three others hospitalized is serving as a stark reminder of why the 2A matters.

According to Dutch authorities, the attack appears to have been random. A passerby finally stopped the suspect, who was also hospitalized. Among the injured were a 67-year-old American woman and a 69-year-old American man. The other victims were from Belgium, Poland, and the Netherlands.

While police investigate a motive, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is using this as a moment to underline a simple truth: when seconds count, being armed can make all the difference.

“Violent attacks like this happen suddenly, no matter where you are,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb in a press release obtained by GunsAmerica. “But if they occur here in the United States, there is at least the potential that a legally armed private citizen might intervene.”

Gottlieb emphasized that the U.S. has seen armed citizens stop mass attacks on multiple occasions—more often than most realize.

Thanks to the Second Amendment, more than 21 million Americans are licensed to carry concealed, with millions more covered under permitless carry laws in 29 states. That means millions of law-abiding citizens are empowered to defend themselves and others, whether from a lunatic with a knife or a criminal with a gun.

“It is appalling how anti-gunners and their allies in state legislatures, and on Capitol Hill, continue efforts to disarm honest citizens in this country,” Gottlieb said.

“The idea that leaving good people vulnerable to vicious attack by criminals or crazy people will somehow prevent crime is, at best, delusional,” he continued.

“That much was demonstrated in Amsterdam (with the mass stabbing), where they don’t enjoy the same right to carry as we do in the U.S. Let’s make sure nobody is able to take away our right to self-defense, and the tools to guarantee it,” Gottlieb concluded.

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