ANDY MURRAY said he felt “angry and incredibly sad” hearing the news of the school shootings in Texas.
And the British tennis star revealed the survivor accounts were similar to his own experience in the Dunblane massacre.
Andy Murray opened up on the similarities between the school shootings in Dunblane and Texas
Murray, 35, and older brother Jamie were pupils at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland when Thomas Hamilton murdered 16 children and a teacher in March 1996 before turning the gun on himself.
It remains the deadliest mass shooting in modern British history.
On May 24, an 18-year-old male gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde – ten days after ten people died in a shooting in Buffalo, New York.
Murray said: “It’s unbelievably upsetting and it makes you angry.
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“I heard something on the radio the other day and it was a child from that school.
“I experienced a similar thing when I was at Dunblane, a teacher coming out and waving all of the children under tables and telling them to go and hide.
“And it was a kid telling exactly the same story about how she survived it.
“They were saying that they go through these drills, as young children…
“How? How is that normal that children should be having to go through drills, in case someone comes into a school with a gun?”
Murray opened up on his experiences of the tragedy in his hometown during his Prime Video documentary, released in 2019.
Unable to have the conversation face-to-face, he left a voicemail for director Olivia Cappuccini revealing how he knew Hamilton as a family acquaintance, attended his kids clubs and even shared a car with him.
On the current crisis in the United States, the former world No1 continued to the BBC: “I think there’s been over 200 mass shootings in America this year and nothing changes. I can’t understand that.
“My feeling is that surely at some stage you do something different?
“You can’t keep approaching the problem by buying more guns and having more guns in the country. I don’t see how that solves it.
“But I could be wrong. Let’s maybe try something different and see if you get a different outcome.”
Tributes and memorials left at Robb Elementary School where 19 children and two teachers died on May 24
