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Dunblane massacre

The Dunblane school massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton shot 16 children and one teacher dead before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.[1]

Dunblane massacre
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Dunblane Primary School
Location Dunblane, Scotland
Coordinates 56°11′20″N3°58′27″W
Date March 13, 1996; 22 years ago
c. 9:35 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. (GMT)
Target Pupils and staff at Dunblane Primary School
Attack type
 School shooting, mass murder, murder–suicide
Weapons
Deaths 18 (including the perpetrator)
Non-fatal injuries
 15
Perpetrator Thomas Watt Hamilton

Public debate about the killings centred on gun control laws, including public petitions calling for a ban on private ownership of handguns and an official inquiry, which produced the 1996 Cullen Reports.[2] In response to this debate, two new Firearms Acts were passed, which outlawed private ownership of most handguns in Great Britain.

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ShootingEdit

Deaths[3]
  • Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale (age 5)
  • Emma Elizabeth Crozier (age 5)
  • Melissa Helen Currie (age 5)
  • Charlotte Louise Dunn (age 5)
  • Kevin Allan Hasell (age 5)
  • Ross William Irvine (age 5)
  • David Charles Kerr (age 5)
  • Mhairi Isabel MacBeath (age 5)
  • Gwen Mayor (age 45) (teacher)
  • Brett McKinnon (age 6)
  • Abigail Joanne McLennan (age 5)
  • Emily Morton (age 5)
  • Sophie Jane Lockwood North (age 5)
  • John Petrie (age 5)
  • Joanna Caroline Ross (age 5)
  • Hannah Louise Scott (age 5)
  • Megan Turner (age 5)

At about 8:15 a.m. on Wednesday 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton, aged 43, was seen scraping ice off his van outside his home at Kent Road in Stirling.[4] He left soon afterwards and drove about 5 miles (8 km) north[5] to Dunblane. He arrived on the grounds of Dunblane Primary School at around 9:30 a.m. and parked his van near a telegraph pole in the car park of the school. Hamilton cut the cables at the bottom of the telegraph pole, which served nearby houses, with a set of pliers before making his way across the car park towards the school buildings.[4]
Hamilton headed towards the north-west side of the school to a door near the toilets and the school gymnasium. After entering, he made his way to the gymnasium armed with four legally-held handguns[6]—two 9mm Browning HP pistols and two Smith & Wesson M19 .357 Magnum revolvers.[4] He was also carrying 743 cartridges of ammunition.[3] In the gym was a class of twenty-eight Primary 1 pupils preparing for a PE lesson in the presence of three adult members of staff.[7]
Before entering the gymnasium, it is believed Hamilton fired two shots into the stage of the assembly hall and the girls’ toilet.[4] Upon entering the gymnasium, as he was about to be confronted by Eileen Harrild, the PE teacher in charge of the lesson, he started shooting rapidly and randomly. He shot Harrild, who was injured in her arms and chest as she attempted to protect herself, and continued shooting into the gymnasium.[4][7] Harrild stumbled into the open-plan store cupboard at the side of the gym along with several injured children. Gwen Mayor, the teacher of the Primary 1 class, was shot and killed instantly. The other adult present, Mary Blake, a supervisory assistant, was shot in the head and both legs but also managed to make her way to the store cupboard with several of the children in front of her.[4]
From entering the gymnasium and walking a few steps, Hamilton had fired 29 shots with one of the pistols, killed one child, and injured several others. Four injured children had taken shelter in the store cupboard along with the injured Harrild and Blake. Hamilton then moved up the east side of the gym, firing six shots as he walked, and then fired eight shots towards the opposite end of the gym. He then went towards the centre of the gym, firing 16 shots at point-blank range at a group of children who had been incapacitated by his earlier shots.[4]
A Primary 7 pupil who was walking along the west side of the gym building at the time heard loud bangs and screams and looked inside the gym. Hamilton shot in his direction and the pupil was injured by flying glass before running away. From this position, Hamilton fired 24 shots in various directions. He fired shots towards a window next to the fire exit at the south-east end of the gym, possibly at an adult who was walking across the playground, and then fired four more shots in the same direction after opening the fire exit door. Hamilton then exited the gym briefly through the fire exit, firing another four shots towards the cloakroom of the library, striking and injuring Grace Tweddle, another member of staff at the school.[4]
In the mobile classroom closest to the fire exit where Hamilton was standing, Catherine Gordon saw him firing shots and instructed her Primary 7 class to get down onto the floor before Hamilton fired nine bullets into the classroom, striking books and equipment. One bullet passed through a chair where a child had been sitting seconds before. Hamilton then reentered the gym, dropped the pistol he was using, and took out one of the two revolvers. He put the barrel of the gun in his mouth, pointed it upwards, and pulled the trigger, killing himself. A total of 32 people sustained gunshot wounds inflicted by Hamilton over a 3–4-minute period, 16 of whom were fatally wounded in the gymnasium, which included Mayor and 15 of her pupils. One other child died later en route to hospital.[4]

Emergency responseEdit

The first call to the police was made at 9:41 a.m.[7] by the headmaster of the school, Ronald Taylor, who had been alerted by assistant headmistress Agnes Awlson to the possibility of a gunman on the school premises. Awlson had told Taylor that she had heard screaming inside the gymnasium and had seen what she thought to be cartridges on the ground, and Taylor had been aware of loud noises which he assumed to have been from builders on site that he had not been informed of. As he was on his way to the gym, the shooting ended and when he saw what had happened he ran back to his office and told deputy headmistress Fiona Eadington to call for ambulances, a call which was made at 9:43 a.m.[8]
The first ambulance arrived on the scene at 9:57 a.m. in response to the call made at 9:43 a.m. Another medical team from Dunblane Health Centre arrived at 10:04 a.m. which included doctors and a nurse, who were involved in the initial resuscitation of the injured. Medical teams from the health centres in Doune and Callander arrived shortly after. The accident and emergency department at Stirling Royal Infirmary had also been informed of a major incident involving multiple casualties at 9:48 a.m. and the first of several medical teams from the hospital arrived at 10:15 a.m. Another medical team from the Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary arrived at 10:35 a.m.[8]
By about 11:10 a.m., all of the injured had been taken to Stirling Royal Infirmary for medical treatment; one child died en route to the hospital.[7] Upon examination, several of the patients were transferred to the District Royal Infirmary in Falkirk and some to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.[9]

PerpetratorEdit

Thomas Watt Hamilton
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Born 10 May 1952
Glasgow, Scotland
Died 13 March 1996(aged 43)
Dunblane
Occupation Former shopkeeper
Criminal status Deceased

There had been several complaints to police regarding Hamilton’s behaviour towards the young boys who attended the youth clubs he directed. Claims had been made of his having taken photographs of semi-naked boys without parental consent.[10]
Hamilton had briefly been a Scout leader – initially, in July 1973, he was appointed assistant leader with the 4th/6th Stirling of the Scout Association. Later that year, he was seconded as leader to the 24th Stirlingshire troop, which was being revived. Several complaints were made about his leadership, including two occasions when Scouts were forced to sleep with Hamilton in his van during hill-walking expeditions. Within months, on 13 May 1974, Hamilton’s Scout Warrant was withdrawn, with the County Commissioner stating that he was “suspicious of his moral intentions towards boys”. He was blacklisted by the Association and thwarted in a later attempt he made to become a Scout leader in Clackmannanshire.[11]
Hamilton claimed in letters that rumours about him led to the failure of his shop business in 1993, and in the last months of his life he complained again that his attempts to organise a boys’ club were subject to persecution by local police and the scout movement. Among those he complained to were the Queen and the local Member of Parliament, Michael Forsyth. In the 1980s, another MP, George Robertson, who lived in Dunblane, had complained to Forsyth about Hamilton’s local boys’ club, which his son had attended. On the day following the massacre, Robertson spoke of having previously argued with Hamilton “in my own home”.[12]
On 19 March 1996, six days after the massacre, Hamilton’s body was cremated. According to a police spokesman, this service was conducted “far away from Dunblane”.[13]

Gun controlEdit

The Cullen Reports, the result of the inquiry into the massacre, recommended that the government introduce tighter controls on handgun ownership[14] and consider whether an outright ban on private ownership would be in the public interest in the alternative (though club ownership would be maintained).[15] The report also recommended changes in school security[16] and vetting of people working with children under 18.[17] The Home Affairs Select Committee agreed with the need for restrictions on gun ownership but stated that a handgun ban was not appropriate.
A small group, known as the Gun Control Network, was founded in the aftermath of the shootings and was supported by some parents of the victims of the Dunblane and Hungerford shootings.[18] Bereaved families and their friends also initiated a campaign to ban private gun ownership, named the Snowdrop Petition because March is snowdrop time in Scotland.[19]

New bansEdit

In response to this public debate, the Conservative government of John Major introduced the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997, which banned all cartridge ammunition handguns with the exception of .22 calibre single-shot weapons in England, Scotland and Wales, and following the 1997 General Election, the Labour government of Tony Blair introduced the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, banning the remaining .22 cartridge handguns as well.[20] This left only muzzle-loading and historic handguns legal, as well as certain sporting handguns (e.g. “Long-Arms”) that fall outside the Home Office definition of a “handgun” because of their dimensions. The ban does not affect Northern Ireland.[21]

Criticism of the authoritiesEdit

Evidence of previous police interaction with Hamilton was presented to the Cullen Inquiry but was later sealed under a closure order to prevent publication for 100 years.[22] The official reason for sealing the documents was to protect the identities of children, but this led to accusations of a coverup intended to protect the reputations of officials.[23] Following a review of the closure order by the Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, edited versions of some of the documents were released to the public in October 2005. Four files containing post mortems, medical records and profiles on the victims, as well as Hamilton’s autopsy, remained sealed under the 100-year order to avoid distressing the relatives and survivors.[24]
The released documents revealed that in 1991, following Hamilton’s Loch Lomond summer camp, complaints were made to Central Scotland Police and were investigated by the Child Protection Unit. Hamilton was reported to the Procurator Fiscal for consideration of ten charges, including assault, obstructing police and contravention of the Children and Young Persons Act 1937. No action was taken.[25]

Media coverageEdit

BooksEdit

Two books – Dunblane: Our Year of Tears by Peter Samson[26] and Alan Crow and Dunblane: Never Forget by Mick North (the father of one of the victims)[27] – both give accounts of the massacre from the perspective of those most directly affected. On 1 March 2006, Creation Books released Predicate: The Dunblane Massacre — Ten Years After by Peter Sotos.[28]

TelevisionEdit

On the Sunday following the shootings the morning service from Dunblane Cathedral, conducted by Rev. Colin MacIntosh, was broadcast live by the BBC. The BBC also had live transmission of the Memorial Service on 9 October 1996, also held at Dunblane Cathedral. A documentary “Crimes That Shook Britain” featured the massacre.[29] The documentary Dunblane: Remembering our Children, which featured many of the parents of the children who had been killed, was broadcast by STV and ITV at the time of the first anniversary.[30] At the time of the tenth anniversary in March 2006 two documentaries were broadcast. Channel 5 screened Dunblane — A Decade On[31] and BBC Scotland showed Remembering Dunblane.[32]

NewspapersEdit

Main article: Sunday Express Dunblane controversy

In 2009, the Sunday Express was criticised for an inappropriate article about the survivors of the massacre, 13 years after the event.[33]

MemorialsEdit

Two days after the shooting, a vigil and prayer session was held at Dunblane Cathedral which was attended by people of all faiths.[3] On Mothering Sunday, on 17 March, Queen Elizabeth II and her daughter Anne, Princess Royal, attended a memorial service at Dunblane Cathedral.[3]

Side view of the nave of a cathedral from outside. Tall arched glass windows run along half the length of the nave from the right. Adjacent to the nave, and to the left of the scene is a cuboid-shaped tower with a conical spire. The foreground is scattered with headstones of a graveyard on green grass.

Numerous memorial services have been held at Dunblane Cathedral.

Seven months after the massacre in October 1996, the families of the victims organised their own memorial service at Dunblane Cathedral, which more than 600 people attended, including Prince Charles who was representing the Royal Family.[3] The service was broadcast live on BBC1 and conducted by James Whyte, a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.[34] Television presenter Lorraine Kelly, who had befriended some of the victims’ families whilst reporting on the massacre for GMTV, was a guest speaker at the service.[3]
In August 1997, two varieties of rose were unveiled and planted as the centrepiece for a roundabout in Dunblane.[35] The two roses were developed by Cockers Roses of Aberdeen;[36] the ‘Gwen Mayor’[37] rose and ‘Innocence’[38]rose, in memory of the children killed. A snowdrop originally found in a Dunblane garden in the 1970s was renamed ‘Sophie North’ in memory of one of the victims of the massacre.[39][40]
The gymnasium at the school was demolished on 11 April 1996 and replaced by a memorial garden.[41] Two years after the massacre on 14 March 1998, a memorial garden was opened at Dunblane Cemetery, where Mayor and twelve of the slain children are buried.[42] The garden features a fountain with a plaque of the names of those killed.[42] Stained glass windows in memory of the victims were placed in three local churches, St Blane’s and the Church of the Holy Family in Dunblane and the nearby Lecropt Kirk as well as at the Dunblane Youth and Community Centre.
The National Association of Primary Education commissioned a sculpture, “Flame for Dunblane”, created by Walter Bailey from a single yew tree, which was placed in the National Forest, near Moira, Leicestershire.[43][44]

Commemoration stoneEdit

The Dunblane Commemoration standing stone

In the nave of Dunblane Cathedral is a standing stone by the monumental sculptor Richard Kindersley. It was commissioned by the Kirk Session as the Cathedral’s commemoration and dedicated at a service on 12 March 2001.[45] It is a Clashach stone two metres high on a Caithness flagstone base. The quotations on the stone are by E. V. Rieu (“He called a little child to him…”), Richard Henry Stoddard (“…the spirit of a little child”), Bayard Taylor(“But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me”) and W. H. Auden (“We are linked as children in a circle dancing”).[46]

Musical tributesEdit

With the consent of Bob Dylan, the musician Ted Christopher wrote a new verse for “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” in memory of the Dunblane school children and their teacher. The recording of the revised version of the song, which included brothers and sisters of the victims singing the chorus and Mark Knopfler on guitar, was released on 9 December 1996 in the UK, and reached number 1. The proceeds went to charities for children.[47] Pipe Sergeant Charlie Glendinning of the City of Washington Pipe Band (US) composed “Dunblane,” a tune for bagpipes, which Bonnie Rideout arranged for two violins and viola. It was recorded on Rant, an album produced by Maggie’s Music.[48] Pipe Major Robert Mathieson of the Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band composed a pipe tune in tribute, “The Bells of Dunblane.”[49]

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “Mass shootings and gun control”. BBC News. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  2. ^ “Public inquiry into the shootings at Dunblane Primary School”. gov.uk. Scottish Office. 16 October 1996.
  3. ^ a b c d e f The Dunblane Massacre, BBC. h2g2. 15 May 2006. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i The Public Inquiry into the Shootings at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996, 16 October 1996. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  5. ^ Distance between Stirling and Dunblane, distance.to. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  6. ^ Britain’s Gun Laws Seen As Curbing Attacks, The Washington Post. The Washington Post. 24 April 2007. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  7. ^ a b c d Transcripts of Proceedings at the Public Enquiry into Incident at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996, scotland.gov.uk. 18 October 2006. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  8. ^ a b Barrie, Douglas (11 March 2016). “Dunblane massacre: Timeline of school shooting that shocked a nation”. STV News. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  9. ^ From the archive, 14 March 1996: Sixteen children killed in Dunblane massacre, The Guardian. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  10. ^ Cullen Report 1996, Chapter 4, paras. 12–15
  11. ^ Cullen Report 1996, Chapter 4
  12. ^ “Dunblane Primary School (Shooting)”. UK Parliament. 14 March 1996. Retrieved 16 April 2007.
  13. ^ “Five small coffins laid to rest in Dunblane”. The Independent. London: Newspaper Publishing PLC. 20 March 1996. Retrieved 6 March 2016. Thomas Hamilton was cremated in secret yesterday far away from the city where he committed mass murder.
  14. ^ Cullen Report 1996, Chapter 8, paras. 9–119
  15. ^ Cullen Report 1996, Chapter 9, para. 113
  16. ^ Cullen Report 1996, Chapter 10, para. 19,26
  17. ^ Cullen Report 1996, Chapter 11, paras. 21, 29–39 and 47
  18. ^ “Gun Control Network, ‘About Us'”. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  19. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-61269305.html
  20. ^ “Britain’s changing firearms laws”. BBC News. 12 November 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  21. ^ “The Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 (Commencement) Order 1997 (No. 3114 (c.116))”. 1997-12-17. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
  22. ^ Peterkin, Tom (10 February 2003). “Call to lift secrecy on Dunblane murderer”. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 7 October2012.
  23. ^ Seenan, Gerard (14 February 2003). “Call to lift veil of secrecy over Dunblane”. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  24. ^ “Order lifted on Dunblane papers”. BBC News. 28 September 2005. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  25. ^ Uttley (2006), p. 209
  26. ^ “Dunblane: Our Year of Tears”. Goodreads. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  27. ^ “Dunblane: Never Forget”. Goodreads. Retrieved 12 March2017.
  28. ^ Sotos, Peter (2006). Predicate: The Dunblane Massacre — Ten Years After. Creation Books. p. 192. ISBN 1-84068-136-5.
  29. ^ “Crimes that Shook Britain”. Radio Times. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  30. ^ Sutcliffe, Thomas (13 March 1997). “TV Review of Dunblane: Remembering Our Children”. The Independent. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  31. ^ “Dunblane – A decade on”. bfi.org. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  32. ^ “Remembering Dunblane, 20 years on”. Evening Times. 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  33. ^ Oliver Luft (2009-03-16). “PCC targets Sunday Express over Dunblane allegations”. The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  34. ^ Dunblane victims to be honoured Prince will attend memorial service. The Herald. 7 October 1996. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  35. ^ Roses named for Dunblane dead, The Independent. 20 August 1997. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  36. ^ Flower power for Dunblane tribute, Daily Record. 20 August 1997. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  37. ^ Gandy’s Hybrid Tea Roses – Gwen Mayor, roses.co.uk. Cockers Roses of Aberdeen. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  38. ^ Low Growing Patio Roses – Innocence, roses.co.uk. Cockers Roses of Aberdeen. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  39. ^ Scotland’s Snowdrop fans, The Herald (Glasgow). The Herald. 1 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  40. ^ Galanthus Sophie North Archived 19 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine., rareplants.co.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  41. ^ Dunblane school gym reduced to rubble, The Independent. 12 April 1996. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  42. ^ a b Dunblane victims remembered, BBC. 14 March 1998. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  43. ^ “Flame for Dunblane”. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  44. ^ “Dunblane forest memorial (From Herald Scotland)”. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  45. ^ “Dunblane Cathedral”. Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  46. ^ “Dunblane Commemoration Stone”. Kindersley Studios. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  47. ^ “Dunblane children record Dylan song for Christmas (Reuters)”. Edlis.org. 20 November 1996. Retrieved 13 March2012.
  48. ^ “Bonnie Rideout – Dunblane”. Last.fm. Retrieved 25 January2016.
  49. ^ “Bells of Dunblane – Highland Bagpipes traditional tunes’ stories by Stephane Beguinot”. Retrieved 25 January 2016.

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Dick’s Keeps Digging NRA-ILA

Dick’s Keeps Digging

The first law of holes, sometimes attributed to cowboy philosopher Will Rogers, suggests, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” In other words, don’t make a bad decision worse by expanding it, with the hope that you will eventually extricate yourself. The hole will just get deeper.  Somebody may want to mention this to Dick’s Sporting Goods.

After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy, the retailer caved in to pressure from the gun-ban community and began to enact a number of anti-gun policiesat both Dick’s Sporting Goods and Field & Stream stores. The most egregious of these new policies was the refusal to recognize the Second Amendment rights of adults aged 18-20 by refusing to sell them firearms.

Dick’s then doubled down by announcing it would not just remove certain types of semi-automatic rifles from its stores, but would actually destroy its entire stock of these commonly-owned firearms, along with their accessories.  Yes, you read that right.  Dick’s will destroy firearms.

But if anyone who supports our Right to Keep and Bear Arms was still confused about Dick’s position on our firearms freedom, a recent article at theFederalist.com should remove all doubt.

The Federalist reports that Dick’s Sporting Goods has hired three new federal lobbyists to promote gun control in Congress.  Evidently, Dick’s has cut ties with a lobbying firm it had used for a number of years to protect its business interests on issues like tax reform, cybersecurity, and patent litigation reform.  New lobbyist registration documents state the new lobbyists were hired for “[l]obbying related to gun control.”

Considering this development, perhaps encouraging Dick’s to stop digging is pointless. It’s entirely possible that the chain realizes it has irrevocably damaged its image among the pro-freedom community, especially with those who take part in outdoor activities.  That is a reasonable assumption, given this latest development.  If this is the case, as it appears to be, Dick’s new lobbying venture is likely meant to fully embrace anti-gun advocacy at all levels and through whatever means necessary.

So as Dick’s continues to develop its anti-gun bona fides by fully embracing a gun control agenda, we note that the retailer continues to stock small shovels and trenching tools in most of its locations.  We can’t verify whether they outsource the heavier implements needed for the major excavation at corporate headquarters in Pennsylvania.

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Great Britain is having a Nervous Breakdown

Scottish Man in Custody for Carrying Potato Peeler in Public Place

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A man was arrested in Dunfermline, Scotland, on Saturday for carrying a potato peeler in a public place “without reasonable excuse” and faces up to four years in prison.

The Dunfermline Sheriff Court confirmed to Breitbart London that Scott Walker, 39, of the James Bank Hostel, James Street had appeared Monday, charged under the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995, for carrying “an article which had a blade or which was sharply pointed, namely a potato peeler”.
Sheriff Pino di Emidio ordered that Walker should return to the court on May 16th for sentencing over the crime, for which he could receive up to four years’ imprisonment.
The man was on bail for another unspecified offence at the time of his arrest.

Local newspaper the Dunfermline Press And West of Fife Advertiser reports Walker has been in Appin Crescent, Dunfermline, with the potato peeler at the time of his arrest. The paper quotes the defence solicitor Selina McKay who said her client “suffers from significant learning difficulties which have been lifelong”.

The unusual arrest comes amid heightened public interest over knife crime, as UK capital London experiences an unprecedented crime wave with 62 suspected murders in the capital so far in 2018 — leaving the city overtaking traditionally higher-crime New York for the first time in over 200 years.
While London is an ostensibly gun-free zone, a number of these killings have been shootings, while others have been committed with knives.
Focus has also fallen on Scotland’s court system, after comedian and YouTuber Mark Meechan, also known by his performer name Count Dankula, was handed an £800 fine after a two-year court battle surrounding a joke.
Meechan argued the Scottish court ruling did not take into account the context of the humour, in which he filmed his girlfriend’s pug dog making a Nazi salute in return for treats.

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VIDEO: Hollywood actress attends anti-gun protest — with armed guards MAY 5, 2018 BY KYLE OLSON

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Do as Hollywood celebrities say, not as they do.
Actress Alyssa Milano attended an anti-NRA protest in downtown Dallas today — and she did it surrounded by armed guards.

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This is Will Haraway a CCW @nra member. He asked @Alyssa_Milano’s security if he was armed (he was) and then asked Alyssa about it. Here’s what happened. (She comes to talk to him after this and I will post that longer video shortly).

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In video captured by Ben Howe, NRA member Will Haraway asked Milano’s security if he was armed and the man clearly wasn’t amused by the question.
“I’m going to ask you to leave,” the guard said repeatedly, physically backing Haraway up by getting in his face.
“How far do I have to go?” Haraway asked.
“I’m going to need you on the sidewalk,” the agent responded.
“Hypocrite! Alyssa you’re a hypocrite! You have armed security here!” an observer yelled.
Milano’s friends, meanwhile, had no problem denouncing guns while benefiting from her special protected status.

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I will change the world. Will you help me? No other family should have to ever experience my nightmare. Not one more gun death. Not one more broken hearted family. NOT. ONE. MORE. @NoRA4USA @Alyssa_Milano

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“I will change the world,” Khary Penebaker declared, posing next to the safe Milano.
“Not one more gun death. Not one more broken hearted family. NOT. ONE. MORE,” he said.
The irony, of course, was lost on the Hollywood celebrity as she denounced the Second Amendment group.

Alyssa Milano

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The best way to defeat the NRA is to vote for candidates who don’t take their money. Register to vote at http://www.NoRANow.org .

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“The best way to defeat the NRA is to vote for candidates who don’t take their money,” she sniffed.
She wants the little people to disarm when she won’t?

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From Theo Sparks

“Assault Weapons Should Not Be…”………………….from Rico

Kamala Harris, California Democrat and 2020 Presidential candidate hopeful says:
“Assault weapons* should NOT be walking the streets of a civilized country.” (…apparently believing that she should decide what ‘rights’** Americans may have…typical Leftist Democrat.)
Meanwhile, free Americans who believe they (and the Consitution) determine what rights they have and not some political demagogue quite beg to differ, and retort:
“Progressive Democrats should NOT be walking the streets of a civilized country.”
Note: Dead African-Americans in heavily Democrat and gun-controlled Chicago could not be reached to voice their opinion on the topic.
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* Assault weapons: Anything a Leftist finds skeery, there being no other actual definition.
** Rights: Considered not to be infringed and inalienable (not granted by, but protected by the Constitution) by Americans; considered ‘privileges’ to be given or withdrawn by Leftists that know better than everyone else what’s actually best for them.
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Harvard Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Under 30 Support Banning ‘Assault Weapons’ by S.H. BLANNELBERRY

(Photo: Teens for Gun Reform)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Maybe we can chalk this up to post-Parkland hysteria or maybe we can’t. But a new poll indicates that 64 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 support tougher gun laws.
As it specifically relates to black rifles, what gun-grabbers call “assault weapons,” 58 percent of voters under 30 support a ban, according to a survey conducted by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.
Only five years ago, support for a black rifle ban amongst that same demographic was at 41 percent. And that was in 2013, on the heels of the high-profile mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
“For several years, the opinions of young Democrats, Republicans and independents have been steadily shifting toward greater support for gun control measures,” said John Della Volpe, the institute’s polling director, in an interview with the Washington Post.
“The difference today is that the Parkland students have created an environment where the lack of progress on reducing gun violence is now symbolic of all the ills plaguing Washington, D.C.,” he continued.
The poll was conducted back in March. Over 2,600 young adults were surveyed and the results are said to have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

SEE ALSO: Support Gun Control You Child Hating Bigot!!

I checked Gallup to see if it had similar findings. But the last time it polled the public on the question of “assault weapons” was back in October. Days after a psycho shot up a country music concert in Las Vegas, killing 58 and wounding hundreds more.

The trend as it relates to banning black rifles.  This is all age groups, not just youngsters. (Photo: Gallup)

Gallup’s results indicated a 50/50 split. Approximately half support the ban and half opposed. But that metric reflects all respondents, not just those under 30. Still, one would think that it might be higher given the wave of anti-gun sentiment that pervades the airwaves following a national tragedy like Vegas.

A closer look at the breakdown.  (Photo: Gallup)

So, what gives?  Why was Parkland more impactful?  Well, it certainly had more staying power in the public consciousness when compared to other tragedies.  No doubt that was a result of non-stop media coverage and protests funded by Michael Bloomberg and other elites.
The CNN graph below shows Google searches of gun control after mass killings.  You’ll notice that the Parkland peaks (in purple) are higher than many of the others listed.

Google searches after mass killings. (Photo: Google/CNN)

Are we seeing a real shift in opinion on modern sporting rifles, particularly amongst millennials?  Probably too early to tell.  We’ll need more data from other reputable pollsters to make a real determination.  Yet, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t unnerved by the results of the Harvard poll.

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Want to help some Good Kids in NY? Then take a Gander at this please
Dear League Parent/Student Athlete
The League has been made aware of pending legislation that will have significant impact on the thousands of student athletes, parents, coaches, and volunteers that participate in the New York State High School Clay Target League.
Bill A10428 has been introduced to the New York Assembly. The intention of the bill is to prohibit all New York schools from offering any type of shooting program. The relevant text from the bill is quoted below.
“S 809-B. PROHIBITION OF MARKSMANSHIP AND/OR SHOOTING PROGRAMS.

1. NO PUBLIC SCHOOL SHALL OFFER MARKSMANSHIP AND/OR SHOOTING PROGRAMS.
2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, MARKSMANSHIP AND/OR SHOOTING PROGRAMS SHALL INCLUDE ANY COMPETITIVE AND RECREATIONAL SPORTING ACTIVITIES INVOLVING PROFICIENCY TESTS OF ACCURACY, PRECISION AND SPEED IN USING VARIOUS TYPES OF RANGED WEAPONS, SUCH AS FIREARMS AND AIR GUNS, IN FORMS SUCH AS HANDGUNS, RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS AND/OR BOWS OR CROSSBOWS.”
What Can You Do?
The League encourages everyone who may be impacted to express their opinions on NY State Assembly Bill A10428 at  THIS LINK.
You can also express your opinions on A10428 by contacting your respective State Senators and Members of Assembly.

  • You can learn who your Member of Assembly is HERE.
  • You can learn who your State Senator is HERE.

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  3. Thousands of student athletes, parents, coaches, and volunteers are participating in the League this spring.
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  5. All teams are 100% School-Approved.
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  8. Participation can lead to scholarships and other educational opportunities.
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Two UNL profs protest against NRA lobbyist; one faces property destruction charge

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 Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members took their protests against the National Rifle Association to Virginia, and one faces a misdemeanor charge of property destruction.
The two — Amanda Gailey, associate professor of English, and Patricia Hill, a research assistant professor of sociology — separately participated in protests against NRA lobbyist Chris Cox of Alexandria, Virginia.
A third protester, Catherine Koebel, carried a sign or handed out flyers this month with Gailey, who was involved in a controversial protest at UNL last year. Koebel is a biologist who at one time was a visiting professor at William & Mary in Virginia but is no longer there.

A photo in an Alexandra newspaper shows Gailey holding a sign that says: “NRA Chris Cox profits off dead kids.” Koebel holds a large artificial check that reads, among other things: “Chris Cox Lobbying for Death & Terror.”
Gailey participates in Nebraskans Against Gun Violence, although Gailey and Koebel called themselves “The Great American Gun Melt” in Virginia.
The Alexandra Police Department said Monday that Hill was arrested on Jan. 11 and has a May 21 court date. She is charged with destruction of property.
UNL had little to say Monday about the developments. In a written statement, spokeswoman Leslie Reed said: “The university has nothing to do with these events. Amanda Gailey was acting on her own time and expressing her personal views. Patricia Hill’s actions are a local law enforcement matter in Virginia. It is premature for us to comment.”
[Read more: UNL student resumes recruitment for conservative group as officials call for civility on campus]Gailey gained attention last August for participating in a protest against a sophomore who was recruiting for Turning Point USA, a conservative organization. Turning Point keeps a “watchlist” of liberal professors across the country.
She carried a sign that day, Aug. 25, that read: “Turning Point: Please put me on your watchlist. Prof. Amanda Gailey.” Another person, graduate student/lecturer Courtney Lawton, flipped off the sophomore and made derogatory comments about her. Lawton hasn’t been invited back to UNL for the fall.
Hill, who couldn’t be reached Monday, is accused of throwing or spraying fake blood on the Virginia residence of Cox, the NRA lobbyist, in October and January, the Washington Post reported.
Libby Locke, a Cox family lawyer, said the vandalism included defacing the home with stickers.
“The Cox family does not view these activities as a peaceable protest exercise,” Locke said. “These coordinated tactics have crossed the line of civility and human decency.”
Gailey and Koebel, who didn’t return phone calls or emails Monday, told the Post they had done nothing wrong. They protested at Cox’s wife’s business as well as the Cox residence.
Gailey was quoted by the Post as saying: “I don’t think the Cox family is getting enough social pressure. … I wouldn’t do that unless we were protesting someone who I believe is a truly indefensible human being.”
This report includes material from the Associated Press.
[Read more: Nebraska legislators divided on handling of UNL lecturer’s clash with conservative student]

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British Politicians Declare War on Knives

Having failed to thwart crime with gun bans, British officials now want to restrict what may be the most useful tool ever invented.

 | April 24, 2018


It turns out that when you pass laws disarming people in an attempt to prevent violence, criminals who habitually disregard all laws don’t make exceptions for the new rules. In London, crime still thrives despite the U.K.’s tight gun controls and the British political class is now desperately turning its attention to restricting knives.
A flurry of recent headlines reveal that London now has a higher murder rate than New York City, a metropolis of nearly identical population and one long considered more vulnerable to crime. “London police investigated more murders than their New York counterparts did over the last two months,” Reuters reported earlier this month. “In the latest bloodshed, a 17-year-old girl died on Monday after she was found with gunshot wounds in Tottenham, north London, a day after a man was fatally stabbed in south London.”
Commentators note that this may be a blip and that New York City’s murder rate for 2017 stood at more than double that for London. In fact, London’s murder rate really hasn’t risen much—instead, New York’s has dropped dramatically.
But that still represents a big shift. In her 2002 Guns and Violence: The English Experience, historian Joyce Lee Malcolm noted that “New York City’s homicide rate has been at least five times higher than London’s for two hundred years. For most of that time, there were no serious firearm restrictions in either city.”

New Yorkers didn’t need firearms to exceed the bloodlust of their trans-Atlantic rivals. Even if you removed crimes committed with guns from the comparison, “New Yorkers still managed to outstab and outkick Liverpudlians by a multiple of 3 and Londoners by a multiple of 5.6″ over those two centuries,” wrote the late Eric H. Monkkonen in Murder in New York City, published in 2000.
The mayhem that’s closed London’s homicide gap with its trans-Atlantic rival appears to be largely the result of violent criminal gangs. Firearms are strictly restricted in the U.K., including a near-total ban on handguns.
Nevertheless, “[i]n the 12 months to October 2017, there were 2,500 offences involving guns: a 16 per cent increase on the previous year and a 44 per cent increase on 2014,” the London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee noted in January. Criminals, it seems, are not averse to committing crimes—including the illegal acquisition of tools that help them commit more crimes.
Besides illegal guns, British criminals also use edged weapons, which have been a favorite tool for mayhem since the dawn of civilization.
Having failed to disarm criminals with gun controls that they defy, British politicians are now turning their attention to implementing something new and different: knife control. Because criminals will be much more respectful of knife laws than of those targeted at firearms, I guess.
“No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law,” London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted on April 8.
Not to be outdone, his predecessor, Boris Johnson, currently Foreign Secretary, called for increased use of stop-and-search powers by police. “You have got to stop them, you have got to search them and you have got to take the knives out of their possession.”
Poundland (the British equivalent of a dollar store) announced last week that it will no longer sell kitchen knives in any of its 850 stores. Similar stores are being slapped with fines for selling knives to minors.
British politicians propose banning home delivery of knives and police promote street-corner bins for the surrender of knives while also conducting stings against knife vendors. Their goal is to “target not only those who carry and use knives, but also the supply, access and importation of weapons.”
It all sounds all so familiar, doesn’t it? And yet so utterly pointless. If British authorities have been unable to block criminals’ access to firearms—mechanical devices that require some basic mechanical skill to manufacture, or at least a 3D printer—how are they going to cut off the flow of knives, which require nothing more than a piece of hard material that can take an edge?
There are also practical downsides to discouraging the public from possessing knives—one of the oldest and most useful tools ever invented. Poundland, after all, isn’t dropping the sale of combat blades; the company’s move applies specifically to the tools people use to make their meals. The law looks much more likely to inconvenience peaceful people planning to carve a roast than to put off thugs who, push comes to shove, can find a way to sharpen a piece of rebar against a rock.
And remember, if guns and knives can be used offensively by criminals, they can be used defensively by would-be victims—especially if they’re permitted to do so. In her 2002 book, Malcolm noted that “English law now prohibits civilians from carrying any article” for private defense. Seventy-eight year-old Richard Osborn-Brooks was recently arrested on suspicion of murder for fatally stabbing a burglar who attacked him in his own home; only under public pressure did police released him without charges. Current British law actually enhances the advantage criminals who ignore the law have over their law-abiding prey.
Rather than a race to ban dangerous objects that can only end with the criminalization of rocks and pointed sticks, it’s time politicians stopped pushing laws that are ignored by criminals and annoying and inconvenient to the rest of us.

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