Three decades on the people of Dunblane, the community that was torn apart by the tragedy, will mark the anniversary privately.<\/p>\n
For those who fought for the handgun ban, there is some small consolation in what happened next.<\/p>\n
“People make demands on the government the whole time,” says Blair.<\/p>\n
“You can’t meet all those demands but this demand in this way was something, it wasn’t about money, it wasn’t about priorities, it was just about a terrible, terrible event that the country was determined should lead to a change.”<\/p>\n
For George Robertson, what the parents lost is “always going to be greater than anything that came out of it”.<\/p>\n
“When there is another school shooting in America, I do take a degree of satisfaction from the fact that we stopped that from happening in our country,” he says.<\/p>\n
“Because there is no doubt at all in my mind. If the law had remained the way it was, it would have happened again.”<\/p>\n
Michael Forsyth still finds what happened on 13 March 1996 difficult to talk about.<\/p>\n
“It was a miserable experience for me, but nothing like what it was for those parents who lost their children. I just wish I’d never had to deal with it.”<\/p>\n
“Our children paid the ultimate price,” says Joanna Ross’s father, Kenny.<\/p>\n
“And what I miss most is I can’t remember what she sounds like. It was before the time of videos, mobile phones.<\/p>\n
“I’ve forgotten her voice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three decades on the people of Dunblane, the community that was torn apart by the tragedy, will mark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-463870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}