The Dunblane School Massacre That Changed Gun Law in Britain
America, if you want to change gun law, you need to fight now
One event always comes to mind whenever the news carries stories of school shootings. The Dunblane Massacre was Britain’s worse mass shooting. This tragedy inspired a nation to lobby hard to change gun laws to keep our babies safe.
The Dunblane Massacre
Dunblane is a small town in Scotland. On 13th March 1996, a gunman walked into the school and shot dead sixteen children aged five and their teacher, leaving more severely injured. He then turned the gun on himself, dying at the crime scene.
Thomas Hamilton was forty-three and lived in the town. On that fateful morning, he got into a van he had hired and drove to the primary school, parking in the school car park at 930. He then made his way to a telegraph pole and cut the wires; thinking he was cutting the phone to the school, he actually cut lines to nearby houses. He then entered the school and walked to the hall.
Reports state that previous to this; he had asked a student what time assembly was; the student had misinformed him, saying 930. When Hamilton found the hall empty, he made his way to the nearby sports hall where a first-grade class were just about to start gym.
