‘Angry’ Murray likens Texas faculty taking pictures survivor’s expertise to his personal

Britain’s two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray mentioned the mass taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas made him “angry”, including {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 kids and two lecturers.

The assault, coming 10 days after a taking pictures in Buffalo, New York that left 10 individuals useless, has intensified the long-standing nationwide debate over U.S. gun legal guidelines.

“It’s unbelievably upsetting and it makes you angry. I think there’s been over 200 mass shootings in America this year and nothing changes,” Murray mentioned. “I can’t perceive that …

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“My feeling is that absolutely at some stage you do one thing completely different. You can’t maintain approaching the issue by shopping for extra weapons and having extra weapons within the nation. I don’t see how that solves it.

“But I could be wrong. Let’s maybe try something different and see if you get a different outcome.”

Murray grew up in Dunblane and was a pupil on the city’s native elementary faculty when a gunman killed 16 pupils and a trainer earlier than killing himself. It is the deadliest mass taking pictures in Britain’s trendy historical past.

“I heard something on the radio the other day and it was a child from that school,” Murray instructed the BBC. “I skilled the same factor after I was at Dunblane, a trainer popping out and waving the entire kids 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 were saying that they go through these drills, as young children … How? How is that normal that children should be having to go through drills, in case someone comes into a school with a gun?”