Snowdrops for the Bairns*

This is the story of how the grassroots petitions that emerged after a 1996 school shooting in Dunblane, Scotland saved the UK’s children from America’s fate. One of the petitions was started by a tabloid newspaper. Another by three mums who named their’s after “snowdrops” — the only flower in bloom the day the kindergartners and their teacher died.

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