Schools, colleges and Universities all over the world have been the scenes of multiple shootings in recent years.

On l3th March 1996 Thomas Hamilton, a licensed handgun owner, shot dead l6 children and their teacher at Dunblane Primary School, Scotland.  Hamilton also injured another 12 children and two teachers before shooting himself.  This tragedy led to handguns being banned in the UK.

In February 1996, a month before the Dunblane Primary School gun massacre in Scotland, there were two other school shootings, both in the United States.  There have been a further 69 school and campus shootings between then and March 2009, resulting in 549 deaths and 943 injuries.  The majority of the shootings occur in the United States.

School shootings have occurred in Germany, Bosnia & Hertzegovina, Netherlands, Russia, Argentina, Canada, Sweden, China, Finland and India. 

To view a chart, provided by IANSA (International Action Network on Small Arms) giving details of children and adults killed and wounded in school and campus shootings since 1996, click here.

To find out about the problems caused in schools in the United Kingdom involving replica/imitation and bb guns click on 'Gun Incidents' and from the 'Issue Type' menu select schools and colleges.