Britain's two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray mentioned the mass capturing in Uvalde, Texas made him "offended", including {that a} survivor's account of the incident was much 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 youngsters and two lecturers.
The assault, coming 10 days after a capturing in Buffalo, New York that left 10 folks useless, has intensified the long-standing nationwide debate over U.S. gun legal guidelines.
"It is unbelievably upsetting and it makes you offended. I believe there's been over 200 mass shootings in America this 12 months and nothing modifications," Murray mentioned. "I am unable to perceive that ...
"My feeling is that absolutely at some stage you do one thing totally different. You possibly can't maintain approaching the issue by shopping for extra weapons and having extra weapons within the nation. I do not see how that solves it.
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"However I could possibly be fallacious. Let's possibly strive one thing totally different and see if you happen to get a special consequence."
Murray grew up in Dunblane and was a pupil on the city's native elementary faculty when a gunman killed 16 pupils and a instructor earlier than killing himself. It's the deadliest mass capturing in Britain's fashionable historical past.
"I heard one thing on the radio the opposite day and it was a toddler from that college," Murray instructed the BBC. "I skilled an identical factor after I was at Dunblane, a instructor popping out and waving all the youngsters 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 have been saying that they undergo these drills, as younger youngsters ... How? How is that ordinary that youngsters needs to be having to undergo drills, in case somebody comes into a college with a gun?"
