Thomas Hamilton was a loner. He decided to dedicate his life to running boys’ clubs to keep kids off the street, but its quite likely he had ulterior motives for this. His strange, erratic and inappropriate behaviour meant that he was not well liked, his his passion, his boys’ clubs, came under scrutiny. He also had a persecution complex, and as his life fell apart due to his own actions, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Thomas Hamilton became the man responsible for the Dunblane Massacre, the only school shooting in British History.
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Sources:
The Hon Lord Cullen “The Public Inquiry into the Shootings at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996” https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276631/3386.pdf
Mick North, Dunblane Never Forget (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2000)
Nick Cohen “The life and death of Thomas Watt Hamilton” The Independant https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-life-and-death-of-thomas-watt-hamilton-1672323.html (17 March 1996)
Bethan Bell, “Hugerford Massacre”, The BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/hungerford_massacre (18 August 2017)
Eleanor Steafel, “30 years on from Hungerford – the wounds Michael Ryan left on the town and its people are still raw” in The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/30-years-hungerford-wounds-michael-ryan-left-town-people-still/ (13 August 2017)
“THE HUNGERFORD MASSACRE: CRIME FILES” https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/michael-ryan-and-the-hungerford-massacre
Office for National Statistics “Statistical bulletin: Crime in England and Wales: year ending September 2017” https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingseptember2017#offences-involving-weapons-recorded-by-the-police-continue-to-rise (25 January 2018)
“America’s gun culture in 10 charts” from BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081 (21 March 2018)
Maya Rhodan, “Gun-Related Deaths in America Keep Going Up” in Time http://time.com/5011599/gun-deaths-rate-america-cdc-data/ (6 November 2017)
“Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence” from BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604 (5 January 2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_policy_in_the_United_Kingdom#Firearm_licensing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre