Andy Murray likens Texas shooting to own experience during Dunblane massacre

Britain’s two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray mentioned the mass capturing in Uvalde, Texas, made him “indignant”.

He added {that a} survivor’s account of the incident was much 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, coming 10 days after a capturing in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 individuals useless, has intensified the long-standing nationwide debate over US gun legal guidelines.

“My feeling is that certainly at some stage you do one thing totally different. You may’t hold approaching the issue by shopping for extra weapons and having extra weapons within the nation. I do not see how that solves it.

“However I could possibly be improper. Let’s possibly strive one thing totally different and see in case you get a unique end result.”

Murray grew up in Dunblane and was a scholar on the city’s native elementary faculty when a gunman killed 16 pupils and a instructor 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 baby from that college,” Murray informed the BBC.

“I skilled the same factor after I was at Dunblane, a instructor popping out and waving the entire youngsters below tables and telling them to go and conceal.

“And it was a child [in Uvalde] telling precisely the identical story about how she survived it.

“They had been saying that they undergo these drills, as younger youngsters… How? How is that standard that youngsters ought to be having to undergo drills, in case somebody comes into a college with a gun?”

Reuters