I was browsing Horseshoe leather's website and I saw this article, I know it's old, but some may have no idea what happened to the handguns in Britain. This gives a good description of what happened and how one grisly incident at a critical time stirred the government to act foolishly with the ignorant backing of the general populace.
This leads me to believe we need to educate the sheeple so that they don't follow the leader in and engineered stampede.
http://www.holsters.org/dunblane.htm