We have 72000 schools in this country each with a number of entrances

We have 72,000 schools in this country, each with a number of entrances. I don’t believe we can make schools into high-security fortresses and I’m not sure we’d want to,” he said.The identity of the gunman remained a mystery last night but one friend of his painted an innocuous picture of him. Isabell Hartung, who was two school years ahead of the gunman, said: “We had a lot of small talk together – he was a funny guy who liked his life and he was very intelligent. I only heard from friends that he came late to lessons and had got into trouble with teachers.” Mass shootings, lone gunmen27 March 2002, FranceEight councillors and officials were shot dead in Paris suburb Nanterre.

Gunman Richard Durn later jumped to his death from the fourth floor of a police station. 26 September, 2001, SwitzerlandFourteen people were killed by local man Friedrich Leibacher, when he burst into Zug’s local assembly hall armed with a gun and grenades Leibacher then killed himself. He had been embroiled in a two-year dispute with the Zug transport department.1 June, 2001, Nepal Nepal’s King Birendra and eight members of the royal family were shot dead by Crown Prince Dipendra, apparently drunk and armed with a machine gun Dipendra then shot himself, dying several days later. 19 February, 2001, Germany A man in Munich shot dead his former boss and foreman before going on to kill the head of his former school, before killing himself. 27 October, 1999, Armenia Five gunmen entered the Armenian parliament in Yerevan and assassinated Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian and seven other officials.

20 April, 1999, America Twelve students and a teacher killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The two student gunmen committed suicide.21 May, 1998, America Two teenagers were killed and more than 20 people hurt when 17-year-old Kip Kinkel opened fire at a high school in Springfield, Oregon, after killing his parents. Kinkel, was sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison.24 March, 1998, America Four students and a teacher killed at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Two students­ aged 13 and 11 at the time ­ remain in custody.1 December, 1997, America Three students were killed and five wounded at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky.

The gunman ­ 14 at the time ­ is now serving life in prison.13 March, 1996, Scotland Sixteen children and a teacher killed at Dunblane Primary School Ten pupils and two teachers wounded The gunman, Thomas Hamilton, shot himself.. Paul Coppin stared in disbelief when he heard that he and the party he had taken to Greece for a plane-spotting holiday had been convicted on charges related to spying. We are getting so used to Greek justice we expect it to go wrong every time.”The district attorney has been against us from the start. And now it’s as if the court has completely ignored all the evidence we have put before them for the last two to three days.”Mr Coppin’s wife Lesley, who was sitting in a van doing a crossword when she was arrested, said she felt “horrible”. “I cannot believe they have done it, but I really should know better. This is all about politics, they made a mistake and they won’t back down,” she said.The group claimed that their initial arrest was down to Greek misunderstanding of a hobby that they admit makes them “anoraks” but which they never thought would appear so strange that it must be a cover for espionage.