We banned the guns that killed school children in Dunblane. Here’s how

After the massacre hit our town, we campaigned for handguns to be outlawed, and it paid off. It’s time America took the same approach.

By Rosemary Hunter

As I wake up to yet another story of a mass school shooting in the USA, the feelings and emotions of that crisp Wednesday morning on March 13th 1996 in Dunblane come flooding back into focus.

I had dropped my 3-year-old daughter off at her nursery around 9am and made my way to work. About an hour later, my mother phoned me in a blind panic to say that there had been shootings in Dunblane. My colleague and I had been oblivious. I quickly looked on teletext (this was pre-mobile and the internet days) and saw that the story was already headlining.