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Offline bsdaddict

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Anyone remember the Luby's massacre?
« on: August 04, 2008, 12:07:53 PM »
I remember it quite well, as it happened in Oct. '91, just a week or two after my family moved from PA to TX and really shook my family up.  We never had guns in the house when I was younger, but by then I was 15 or so and my bro just a few years younger so Dad decided it was time and started building his collection.   Ahhh, those were the days...  We went to many gun shows, got into target and skeet shooting, went dove hunting a couple of times, learned to break down and clean Dad's various guns and learned about reloading.  All because of Luby's... 

Anyway, I came across this video which reminded me of the incident.  It's testimony from Suzanna Hupp, a survivor of the Luby's massacre who subsequently became a Texas State Representative and concealed carry advocate.  In her testimony she shares her accounting of what happened in that Luby's, and laments the fact that if not for "gun control" laws making concealed carry a felony, her parents might not have had to die that day.  In the last statement of this clip Hupp makes a remark regarding what the 2nd is really for... 
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Re: Anyone remember the Luby's massacre?
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2008, 12:20:29 PM »
the lady left her pistol in the car and had a clear shot at the guy but couldn't do a damned thing about it...lost both her mom and dad in the shooting iirc.  All because she followed the law.  Could have saved alot of people that day because she knew how to use a gun, but she left it in her car.

Yes, the world would be a better place if humans would simply abandone their urge to murder fellow humans.
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Re: Anyone remember the Luby's massacre?
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2008, 12:28:47 PM »
They interviewd her on Penn and Tellers roadkill on gun control.

Smart women, and pretty hot for an older lady politician.


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Re: Anyone remember the Luby's massacre?
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2008, 01:37:37 PM »
They interviewd her on Penn and Tellers Bullpoop on gun control.

Smart women, and pretty hot for an older lady politician.

I knew I recognized her from somewhere, must be from P&T...  And yeah, she sure is a looker.  RAWR!

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Re: Anyone remember the Luby's massacre?
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2008, 01:41:20 PM »
Yes I remember, that incident and the Branch Davidians led to Waco being called Wacko.

Bad day.

Great speech by this woman, I especially loved how she ended it.
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Re: Anyone remember the Luby's massacre?
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2008, 01:42:13 PM »
Was good to see her get into Chuck Shumer's face. Normally he'd interrupt, stonewall, all the usual political tricks. But against a woman, a woman who's lost her parents at that, he has to just shut-up, sit there and take it. :D
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