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Dunblane families end support to Florida kids

US CITIZENS must push the country’s politicians to ban guns, relatives of the 16 children and one teacher killed in the Dunblane massacre have written in a letter to the Florida school where 17 children and workers were murdered last month.

On the 22nd anniversary of the shootings in Dunblane, survivors and families have written to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where the shooting took place on Valentine’s Day.

In Scotland the children, aged just five and six, and teacher Gwen Mayor were murdered by gunman Thomas Hamilton when he opened fire on a PE class at Dunblane Primary School on March 13 1996.

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