in Scotland the only question that will be asked of senior police after a slow response to a firearms incident will be “after Dunblane how could this be allowed to happen?”
Scottish police firearms decisions should be seen in that context.
Seeing as how the police in Dunblane were concerned about the perp’s gun ownership, but were overruled by a senior officer, and the event occurred in an urban environment, not out in open, sparsely populated countryside, I’m not entirely sure what your point is, caller.
Hamilton was from Stirling, hardly a remote croft, and Dunblane has a cathedral, so officially a city.
Also, he was investigated over allegations concerning his activities with young children at summer camps he ran, but no action was taken.
Perhaps if something had been done about that, he wouldn’t have had access to weapons.
Questions need to be asked about what senior police officers and the judiciary were doing, or not doing, at the time, but I doubt any more answers would be forthcoming now that they were then.
And having an armed police presence out in the countryside would be no more effective now than it would have been then, because they’d all be miles away from the actual shooting.