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Murray, herself an elite tennis coach who is captain of the British Federation's Cup team, hit back at criticism of herself as a "dragon" mother. There's something about a competitive mum, especially when the children are male. If I want to see my children, watching them play is often the easiest way.
I don't smile when I watch Andy because I'm totally focused. If he looks up, he doesn't want to see me laughing. This article is more than 7 years old. Judy Murray with her son Andy Murray, defending Wimbledon champion, who was at Dunblane primary school when a gunman broke in and killed 16 children in Reuse this content.
By contrast, reform may be thwarted if there is strong opposition from a powerful and organised gun lobby and a significant firearms industry. Opposition only has to stall pressure for change for a relatively short while to be effective. All this helps explain the limited progress towards gun control in the US and after Hungerford in the UK and yet also the fairly dramatic progress of firearms control measures after Dunblane. A growing community of inter-disciplinary gun studies scholars is attempting to draw lessons from these past efforts.
We are using the past to try to understand what needs to happen to protect the public and diminish the risks posed by under-regulated weapons. That includes looking at loopholes in gun legislation, inadequate enforcement of existing firearm laws and small arms proliferation and trafficking. Whereas once the field was dominated by often narrowly conceived American studies, a broad new emerging agenda is now in evidence.
Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party , came to power with a landslide victory over the Tories. Enacted on December 17, , the updated act—approved by a wide margin in the House of Commons—went one step further than the first, banning ownership of. Perhaps the closest American parallel to the Dunblane massacre is the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting , which claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and 6 adult staff in Newtown, Connecticut.
Though the attack led Connecticut and neighboring New York to pass stricter gun legislation, federal gun control laws have remained largely unchanged —an example of legislative inertia that many Dunblane residents struggle to comprehend.
Both Squires and Schildkraut attribute this inaction in large part to differences in American and British gun culture. Squires, for his part, points out that target shooting and hunting in the U.
Despite the deeply ingrained differences, the Dunblane massacre and subsequent passage of the Firearms Act amendments still hold lessons for the U. Schildkraut and Squires are quick to emphasize that banning guns is not, in and of itself, a definitive solution for ending mass violence. On the same day as Sandy Hook, a knife attack at an elementary school in China, which has some of the strictest gun control measures in the world, wounded 23 children and an year-old woman.
Another complicating factor is the protracted path from outlawing guns to actually getting them off the street. Though the number of recorded firearm offenses in England and Wales dropped 37 percent between and , crimes involving guns have since experienced a slight uptick —a trend Squires attributes partly to the proliferation of illegal weapons, including modified imports and antiques, that are traded among gangs and used in multiple crimes.
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