On the Scene

Birmingham

UNTIL the Falklands War, few people other than stamp collectors had ever heard of those barren, windswept islands in the South Atlantic; and until Thomas Watt Hamilton walked into Dunblane Primary School last Wednesday morning and shot 16 children and their teacher dead, then turning his gun upon himself, few people had ever heard of Dunblane. After the three-minute massacre of the innocents, however, the name of Dunblane, a typically dismal small Scottish town, was—and remains—upon everybody’s lips.

About the Author

Anthony Daniels

Mr. Daniels, a retired doctor who worked in several parts of the world, is the author of Mass Listeria, a book about health scares.

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Birmingham

UNTIL the Falklands War, few people other than stamp collectors had ever heard of those barren, windswept islands in the South Atlantic; and until Thomas Watt Hamilton walked into Dunblane Primary School last Wednesday morning and shot 16 children and their teacher dead, then turning his gun upon himself, few people had ever heard of Dunblane. After the three-minute massacre of the innocents, however, the name of Dunblane, a typically dismal small Scottish town, was—and remains—upon everybody’s lips.