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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
Sun Oct 4, 2015, 10:12 PM Oct 2015

List of every gun massacre in Great Britain since guns were invented:

1. 12 August 1966: Shepherd's Bush murders (3 deaths) Three Metropolitan Police officers shot while investigating a car outside Wormwood Scrubs prison.

2. 19 August 1987: Hungerford massacre Hungerford, England (16 deaths, 15 injured) A spree shooting/murder–suicide by Michael Robert Ryan.

3. 13 March 1996: Dunblane school massacre (18 deaths, 15 injured) A school shooting/murder–suicide by Thomas Hamilton.

4. 2 June 2010: Cumbria shootings (12 deaths, 11 injured) A killing spree/murder–suicide by Derrick Bird.

And that's the lot. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Great_Britain)

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