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Ian H. Robertson Ph.D.
Ian H. Robertson Ph.D.
The Winner Effect
Law and Crime

School Shootings Solved Forever

How one government stopped school shootings by banning guns.

Posted December 17, 2012

In 1996 there was a shooting at an elementary school in Scotland. 16 children ages 5-6 were killed, along with one teacher. The following year, the UK banned the private ownership of all cartridge ammunition handguns, regardless of caliber. There have been no school shootings since.

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Ian H. Robertson Ph.D.

Ian Robertson, Ph.D., the author of The Stress Test and The Winner Effect, is the T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Research Professor at the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas in Dallas.
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