A tragic and horrific event where Thomas Hamilton shot and killed 16 children and one teacher at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland before taking his own life. This incident led to significant changes in UK gun control laws and deeply shocked the nation.
But the very notion of somebody behaving in the fashion of 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton seemed unthinkable – which is one reason why the details of how he scraped ice off the window of his van at his home in Kent Road in Stirling as the prelude to journeying to Dunblane with a weapons cache, chilled the blood.
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As the hours passed, police confirmed how he had entered the school gymnasium with four legally-owned handguns, prior to firing rapidly, randomly, indiscriminately at shocked little boys and girls and those who were looking after them.
There was heroism from staff members who found themselves in the midst of Britain’s worst-ever mass shooting.