Shattered parents and gun control advocates went into action in 1996 after a former Scout master fatally shot 16 children and their teacher at an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland. After they battled to effectively ban handguns for civilians in the U.K. (automatic weapons were outlawed after a previous mass killing), there hasnt been another mass school shooting in the U.K. since.

Now, Mick North, father of 5-year-old Sophie, who was killed in the Dunblane attack, and one of the founders of the Gun Control Network, is stunned Americans cant get it together to protect their children.

His immediate reaction after learning that 19 children and two teachers had been killed in Uvalde, Texas, in yet another American school shooting was: Oh, no, not again , he told National Public Radio Friday.

But it doesnt come as a surprise any longer because it just happens too often, North added. I thought as soon as people know what happened in Britain, and what changes were brought about as a result of our children dying, that thered be a rush not necessarily to enact the same kind of legislation but at least to try to fight for gun laws. But its just never happened.

Dunblane was a game-changer for guns in the U.K. , Peter Squires, a professor of criminology and public policy at Brighton University, told The Independent in 2017. If the deaths of children will not tweak a nations conscience, nothing will.