BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: "CNN 20," today, the death of innocence, the Dunblane School Massacre.</s>MARAGARET LOWRIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: My colleagues and I here in the CNN London bureau began to hear reports that there had been a shooting at a school in a small town in the Scottish highlands. It was a town called Dunblane, but few of us at that point of course had heard of Dunblane. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, MARCH 13, 1996) LINDEN SOLES, CNN ANCHOR: It was one of the worst shootings ever in Britain. A man described by those who knew him as a loner, walked into a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane.</s>LOWRIE: A killer named Thomas Hamilton entered the school that morning at 9:30 a.m., armed with four automatic, semi-automatic handguns. Went into the gym were he killed 16 children, mostly 4 and 5 years of age, along with their teacher. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, MARCH 13, 1996) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just couldn't believe it.</s>LOWRIE: Witnesses said that the shooting spree had lasted only a couple of minutes, before he turned the gun on himself and killed himself. It was the sort of thing that happened in America, it didn't happen in Britain. But of course, it had happened in Britain, despite this country having some of the toughest gun laws already in the world. Some of the bereaved parents got together and formed a group that they called, Snow Drop. And it was group that would lobby for the next year, very hard to change the laws in this country, to ban gun ownership. And of course, they succeeded. Today, there is a total ban on private handgun ownership in Britain.
CNN 20: Dunblane School Shooting, March 13, 1996