LETTER : Dunblane massacre: glorification of violence is not confined t o gun lovers

Sir: There is one inescapable fact. The children and their teacher were killed by guns. The murderer did not use bows and arrows, stones or knives; he used guns. His carnage was only possible using guns.

All the speculation as to motive, all the psychoanalysis, is a waste of time. There are people at large, and nothing can be done to detect them, who have the seeds of such destruction within them. Leave the means at their disposal and such disasters will occur. Gun control is patently a failure. Only gun eradication will do. There are very few legitimate reasons for possessing a gun, and sport is not one of them. Gun crimes of this kind are not carried out by mentally disturbed people who obtained their guns from the underworld. They were obtained from the vast pool of legal weapons. This pool must be removed.

Robert Nairn

London SE1