A New Lowe: far-right UK politician tells Joe Rogan Dunblane school massacre was ‘one murder’

Hard-right Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe has caused uproar by telling grating Yank podcaster Joe Rogan that the 1996 Dunblane massacre was only ‘one murder’.  The tone-deaf right-winger also lamented that his father lost his pistols due to changes in law brought in after the killings.

Well, boo-bloody-hoo, for daddy.

The Oxford-educated ex-banker was talking about UK gun laws with Rogan, who is himself the human embodiment of divorced-man-whose-kids-won’t-speak-to-them energy.

Let’s get this straight. In March 1996, Thomas Hamilton, an alleged nonce, walked into a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and massacred 16 primary school pupils and a teacher. He stalked through the halls, at times executing children at point-blank range.

Hamilton also injured 15 more people, then shot himself. The massacre was a significant moment in recent British history. It shocked the nation and galvanised major changes to UK gun laws.

Hard-right MP Rupert Lowe has sparked fury after dismissing the Dunblane massacre as 'one murder' during a pro-gun rant on the US-based Joe Rogan podcast 📽️ pic.twitter.com/3sdjgDdMDK

— The National (@ScotNational) July 9, 2026

The tone-deaf and frankly bizarre Rogan-Lowe exchange went like this.

Lowe told the Trump-backing podcaster:

As you probably know they banned handguns in the late 90s because there was a murder up in Dunblane.

Rogan asked:

One murder?

Lowe replied:

One murder.

Poor Lowe – papa got his guns taken away?!

Lowe then told Rogan how his father’s guns had been taken away as a result of post-Dunblane reforms:

So, everybody, my father used to shoot pistols for Oxford University and he had, he’s dead now bless him, but he had all his pistols were taken away, the pistols he used to shoot with at Oxford University.

Needless to say, Lowe has been panned by both victims and politicians. Minister for Scottish Parliament (MSP) Stephen Kerr’s children attended a nearby school:

They’ll never forget being kept in the gym hall until everyone learned the gunman was dead.

They’ll never forget the teachers trying to hold themselves together while reassuring frightened children. To reduce that atrocity to ‘one murder’ is deeply insulting.

Adding:

It wasn’t a single murder. It was a mass murder. In a primary school.

Jack Crozier’s sister Emma was murdered by Hamilton. He said:

Rupert Lowe’s father had his pistols taken away. My father had his daughter taken away.

He knew exactly what happened at Dunblane. He made an active choice, on one of the world’s biggest podcasts, to describe the massacre of 16 five and six-year-old children and their teacher as ‘one murder’.

Adding:

The people of Great Yarmouth need to seriously consider if this is who they want representing them.

Lower originally hyped his appearance on Rogan as being about the standard far-right ‘rape gang’ talking point:

A privilege to join @joerogan and hopefully inform a global audience about what has been happening in Britain – mainly the rape, abuse and torture of countless young white working class girls.

I hope you all find our conversation as informative as I did.https://t.co/ApsHRzcffC pic.twitter.com/YOsnLVFkhH

— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) July 8, 2026

Only a day earlier Tory leader Kemi Badenoch had praised Lowe, saying he was better than Reform UK leader Farage:

.@KemiBadenoch praised hard-right Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe for his work in parliament.

“He turns up to work. Nigel Farage doesn’t,” she said at #POLITICOPlaybookLive.

Rewatch the full conversation: https://t.co/2guaiegerQ pic.twitter.com/0H522qAIn1

— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) July 7, 2026

Billionaire Elon Musk has also praised Lowe in the past:

I have not met Rupert Lowe, but his statements online that I have read so far make a lot of sense.

It is hard to know what the worst element of Lowe’s comments is. They were certainly grotesque in their own right. The fact Lowe – a hyper-wealthy, elite-educated banker – was using Rogan’s platform trying to position himself as a defender of ‘white, working class’ children in the first place makes his words all the more contemptible.

Lowe has proven once again why he – and his political bedfellows like Farage, Musk and so on – should be nowhere near power. Not now, not ever. The Canary’s thoughts are with the victims of Dunblane forced to listen to this utter garbage. May God have mercy on his soul. Because we certainly won’t.

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