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I interviewed Rosemary Hunter, one of the founders of the campaign to outlaw handguns in the U.K. after the 1996 Dunblane massacre. Arguably one of the most succesful grassroots movements of all time, in just over a year the U.K. banned all handguns. 1/5
I interviewed Rosemary Hunter, one of the founders of the campaign to outlaw handguns in the U.K. after the 1996 Dunblane massacre. Arguably one of the most succesful grassroots movements of all time, in just over a year the U.K. banned all handguns. 1/5
In what should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, there has never been a mass shooting in Britain involving handguns since. Same deal with assault rifles, that were already banned after the Hungerford Massacre in 1987 – in which two of my Dad's colleagues were killed. 2/5
Dunblane is also the first news event I can remember. I was 7, just a few years older than the victims. At school, I vividly recall my teachers trying to explain it in an age-appropriate way – a bad man hurt some children, but we shouldn't be scared – which even to a... 3/5
... 7-year-old wasn't entirely reassuring. 25+ years later, I now live in the U.S. and at this point I could write about mass shootings in my fucking sleep. It's disturbing that "The death toll is expected to rise" is a phrase I almost always use in the immediate aftermath. 4/5
Anyway, to deny that strict gun control saves lives is at best willfully ignorant, at worse it's wicked. I realize a U.K./Aus style ban will never happen here because the Constitution, but even the much-vaunted bipartisan bill after Uvalde just seems pathetic by comparison. 5/5
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