PolitiFact - Yes, the UK banned handguns after a 1996 school shooting. There have been no others since

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A deadly school shooting in the United Kingdom pushed British lawmakers to ban private ownership of handguns. There has not been another school shooting since the laws were changed, though experts said this isn’t definitively because of the law change.

A social media post that highlighted the U.K.’s swift response to that shooting — and emphasized that there has not been another school shooting in Britain since — was shared widely following a shooting at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.

"On March 13, 1996, a gunman murdered 16 students and their teacher at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland," read one March 29."The people in the UK took action. Laws changed and certain types of guns were banned. The level of gun violence in Britain is now one of the lowest in the world. The UK has had ZERO school shootings since they changed their gun laws."

 

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What this article says is that the UK never had a toxic gun culture, like in the US, so perhaps without a ban, there wouldn't have been a repeat of the 1996 shooting.

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Translation: 'they did it, it completely worked, but experts can't rule out the possibility that a turnip shortage in West North Mid-Fartington wasn't the actual cause...'

What was that last line for? Science is never definitive- it’s based on theories that remain true until disproved. So, science says it’s the guns. That’s 100% true

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