Britain’s two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has mentioned the mass capturing in Uvalde, Texas, made him “indignant” and that a survivor’s account of the incident was just like his personal expertise within the 1996 Dunblane bloodbath in Scotland.
An 18-year-old gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle stormed an elementary faculty in Texas final week, killing 19 youngsters and two lecturers.
The assault, 10 days after a capturing in Buffalo, New York that left 10 individuals lifeless, has intensified the longstanding nationwide debate over US gun legal guidelines.
“It’s unbelievably upsetting and it makes you indignant. I believe there’s been over 200 mass shootings in America this 12 months and nothing adjustments,” Murray mentioned. “I can’t perceive that ...
“My feeling is that certainly at some stage you do one thing completely different. You'll be able to’t hold approaching the issue by shopping for extra weapons and having extra weapons within the nation. I don’t see how that solves it.
“However I may very well be incorrect. Let’s possibly attempt one thing completely different and see should you get a special final result.”
Murray grew up in Dunblane and was a pupil on the city’s main faculty when a gunman killed 16 pupils and a trainer earlier than killing himself. It's the deadliest mass capturing in Britain’s trendy historical past.
“I heard one thing on the radio the opposite day and it was a toddler from that faculty,” Murray instructed the BBC. “I skilled an identical factor once I was at Dunblane, a trainer popping out and waving the entire youngsters beneath tables and telling them to go and conceal.
“And it was a child telling precisely the identical story about how she survived it.
“They have been saying that they undergo these drills, as younger youngsters ... How? How is that ordinary that youngsters ought to be having to undergo drills, in case somebody comes into a college with a gun?”
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