On March 13,1996, Thomas Hamilton walked into an elementary school in the Scottish village of Dunblane and began firing. By the time the rampage was over, Hamilton had killed 16 children and a teacher before turning his gun on himself. Dunblane was the worst school shooting in British history, and the public response was swift. The British government pushed through legislation that banned all handguns with few exceptions-Hamilton had been armed with four handguns-and instituted a gun-buyback program that took tens of thousands of weapons off the streets.
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