29 years ago today, 16 children and their teacher went to Dunblane Primary School and never came home

by mrjohnnymac18

17 comments

  1. Were you counting down the minutes to midnight like a madman so you could post this first?

  2. I was 9 at School in Edinburgh. It was a strange thing to grasp then. I very distinctly remember my feeling of unease just from seeing how the teachers were reacting. I’d never seen a teacher sad, cry, and drop the teacher act. The whole school drew and sent messages on the tea towels like we did for class, and the school sent them on to DPS.

    Edit: typo healing to feeling

  3. After all these years it’s still one of the most heartbreaking things to happen in Scotland 💙

  4. I am thankful that this is far and few between for you all. I live in the US and the news doesn’t even report all of them anymore on a national level. It has to have more then a handful of deaths to be broadcast across the nation. Still sad to see this type of aggression in the world.

  5. As a US lurker in this sub, can someone link me to the story?

  7. I was at primary school then. I think it affected teachers and pupils all over the country, the idea that perhaps we weren’t actually safe at school. I remember they installed controlled entry buzzers on all the doors so that people couldn’t just walk in anymore. Thank goodness there has never been a repeat but my heart breaks for the lives lost that day and the survivors who were forever traumatised. 💔

  8. I never knew about dunblane for a while . I was the same age as these kids then . My mum protected me from the fear of going to school till I was very much older . Thanks mum.

    The one silver lining is that we banned guns and have never had a single school shooting since .

  9. I’m 37 now. While I didn’t fully grasp it at the time, I do still remember it.

    It sent shockwaves throughout the UK.

    The whole country learned lessons from it, may it never be repeated.

  12. I was in English class when the news came in. I remember our teacher crying.

  13. Documents classified for 100 years by TB.

    I also wonder why.

  14. Heartbreaking. I remember our teacher telling us. I was their age.

  15. I was few miles away that day. Snow on the ground. Remember the news coming over the radio

  16. The UK’s legislation in response to this is what the US should have done a long time ago. William Cullen and the legislators of that time did an excellent job

  17. The beast that did this taught football midweek in my school, nowhere near this atrocity. Those poor souls were not so fortunate to avoid him.

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