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The Dunblane Massacre And The Snowdrop Campaign Which Put An End To School Shootings
The United Kingdom has a total of just 1 school shooting in the history of our nation;- The Dunblane Massacre that happened at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland which shocked the world.
On 13th March 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot 16 infant children and one teacher dead before killing himself.
It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.
It was the main news headline for many months, as people were in disbelief and so shocked, angry, disgusted, outraged, and wanted something urgently done to prevent a national tragedy like this from ever happening again.
It felt like the world was grieving and mourning with the UK at the time, as people from around the world were shocked and stunned that something as horrific and sick as this could happen in a civilised nation like Scotland... and upon innocent little children.
Some people are desensitised to a load of children being killed in certain nations because it happens frequently in third world nations - but this isn't Syria or some uncivilised war-torn place where people rampantly run around freely holding guns and shooting at kids... this happened in the civilised and peaceful nation of Scotland.
Loads of flowers and cards and teddy-bears, etc, were sent from around the globe to Dunblane as people were grieving and the British people came together and heavily mourned over the national tragedy.
This video is very distressing and sad to watch... and causes a painful lump in the throat and tears in the eyes. My eyes are streaming with tears from watching this news report... and seeing the absolute heartache and pain and anguish on those loving parents faces as they waited anxiously outside the school wondering if their 5/6 year old child had been murdered in the massacre.
It was one school shooting too many - and it couldn't be excused nor tolerated. It had to be prevented from ever happening again.
So parents and teachers were amongst the British public who gathered together and worked hard to form The Snowdrop Campaign which gained enormous public support, and they made speeches and put a lot of continuous pressure onto the UK government during meetings to ban hand-gun ownership.
Eventually, the UK government finally listened to the British public - after long campaigns from the UK public for a hand-gun ban.
Gun manufacturers make profits out of selling their killing machines... so of course they didn't support a ban on the sales of hand-guns. They put out misleading propaganda alleging that guns save lives and they only care about making profits, not caring about lives.
Since the great success of the Snowdrop Campaign, the UK hasn't had a single school shooting since Dunblane, which was the first - and the last - and the only school shooting to ever happen in the UK.
We could not allow it to ever happen again.
Guns are seen more on the streets of uncivilised war-torn nations.... but we don't want it in our nation.
Remembering the victims of Dunblane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre
The thought of guns ever being legalised in our society sends shivers and panic and fear down my spine. Like many British people, I'm against gun legislation. It's extremely difficult for people to import a gun past the high security checks in the UK. I feel much safer knowing that people with guns are very rare in the UK. Most people in the UK have never seen a real gun in their life. The only real gun I've ever seen in real life was when I walked past armed royal guards once. I've never touched a real-life gun, nor know how to use one. Guns terrify me and I don't ever want to see one of those scary killing machines.
UK police don't carry guns, but they can spray or taser people sometimes in self-defence. Specialist armed units and the SAS are brought in to deal with terrorists wielding knives... although intelligence and security measures in the UK is high with more CCTV than any other nation in the world, etc.
Knife crime is our main problem... although a person has more chance of escaping from someone holding a knife, than from someone holding a gun. There's methods of self-defence against knives.
Any person who is caught carrying a knife on them during police stop & searches in the street will be prosecuted as it's illegal to carry a knife in public.. and are given 2-5 years in jail for possession of a knife in public.
Even if a person was allowed to have a gun in their home for supposed 'self-defence', a shooter pointing a gun at them wouldn't wait for them to unlock their gun cabinet, load-up their gun, aim it... and then fire the gun... before they've already shot them. Nor would having a gun save a person if someone shot them unexpectedly and by surprise in the back of the head in a street, etc.
20 years on and the scars and heartache of the Dunblane Massacre is still felt by the British public, as a Dunblane survivor describes on national TV the ordeal she endured and the permanent injuries that she's been left with which has affected her emotionally, mentally, and physically.
Andy Murray, a 26-year-old Wimbledon tennis champion, broke down in tears in 2014 as he was honoured and became a freeman of the city at a special meeting of Stirling Council in Dunblane High School.
Tennis champion Andy Murray grew up in Dunblane and attended Dunblane Primary School.
Andy and his brother were both present during the 1996 Dunblane school massacre, when Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and a teacher before shooting himself; Murray took cover from the gun-man in a classroom.
British tennis champion Andy Murray says he was too young to understand what was happening and is reluctant to talk about it in interviews, but in his autobiography 'Hitting Back,' he states that he attended a youth group run by Hamilton and his naive mother kindly gave Hamilton lifts in her car sometimes, before Hamilton turned into a monster. Murray later attended Dunblane secondary school.
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