Dunblane school massacre legacy is ‘a safer Britain’

The father of one of the victims of the 1996 Dunblane school massacre has said it is harder for criminals in the UK to get guns, thanks to the legal clampdown that followed the tragedy.

Mick North, whose five-year-old daughter, Sophie, died in the shooting, said the tragedy steered Britain away from an attitude to guns that still prevails in the US.

Thomas Hamilton shot and killed 16 school children, and their teacher, at Dunblane primary on March 13, 1996. Political action had secured a ban on handguns by the following year.