Dunblane Scotland stands with #NeverAgain movement, Change Can Happen

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Dunblane survivors send support to Parkland school shooting students - BBC

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Context: The Dunblane school massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 children and one teacher before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history - Wikipedia

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1. So sad..

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2. Dunblane wasn't the only home-grown atrocity the UK ever suffered,

nor sadly has it been the last, but the wave of grief and revulsion drove far-reaching gun control measures that seem to have worked so far (in a very different culture to that of the United States where guns weren't as prevalent anyway). Other weaponry can be used, of course, but stiff penalties for those involved in crimes using guns, or even the threat of them (just one of the resulting measures), do seem to act as a deterrent.

There are unanswered questions about Thomas Hamilton (not least his links to high-ups in power at the time), but that shouldn't detract from the power of this heartfelt message.