- Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe, who has received backing from Elon Musk , caused outrage after incorrectly claiming there was only 'one murder' during the 1996 Dunblane school massacre while appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast .
- The Dunblane tragedy, which remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history, resulted in the murder of 16 children aged five and six, along with their teacher.
- Lowe's inaccurate remarks, made during a discussion about the UK's strict gun laws, drew widespread condemnation, with Scottish Conservative MSP Stephen Kerr labelling them 'shocking' and 'deeply insulting' to the victims and their families.
- The massacre prompted significant reforms in the UK's firearms legislation, leading to a ban on most handguns introduced by John Major's Conservative government in 1997, which was later expanded by Tony Blair's Labour government.
- This incident follows previous controversy involving Lowe, who last year mistakenly identified a charity rowing team attempting to raise money for motor neurone disease as illegal migrants in a social media post.
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