2nd Amendment: TX Massacre Tragedy might have been averted - Suzanna Gratia-Hupp.mp4

A Daughter's Regret
"Suzanna Gratia Hupp will live the rest of her life with regret. Had she been carrying her gun the day a madman executed her parents while she cowered helplessly and then fled, she is convinced she could have stopped one of the worst massacres in U.S. history.
It was October 1991 when an unemployed merchant seaman drove his pickup truck into a Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, Tex., leaped out and opened fire. He killed 23 people and wounded more than 20.
Hupp and her parents were having lunch in the restaurant when the shooting started. Hupp instinctively reached into her purse for her .38-caliber Smith & Wesson, but she had left it in the car. Her father tried to rush the gunman and was shot in the chest. As the gunman reloaded, Hupp escaped through a broken window, thinking her mother was behind her.
But Hupp's mother had crawled alongside her dying husband of 47 years to cushion his head in her lap. Police later told Hupp they saw her mother look up at the gunman standing over her, then bow down before he shot her in the head.
"I'd like people to think about what happened to me, and try to place themselves in that situation," Hupp said yesterday between a string of interviews in which she relived the tragedy as Exhibit A in her argument against restrictive gun laws. "Now, instead of thinking of their parents, have it be their children.
"Even if you choose not to have a gun, as the bad guy who ignored all the laws is getting close to you and as he levels that firearm at one of your children, don't you hope the person next to you has chosen to carry a gun and knows how to use it?"
The story is powerful, and not only because the question assaults the brain and invites no easy answers. With its implied alternative of an armed Hupp gunning down the bad guy before he gets too far, the story invokes the American legend of the frontier lawman who acts alone to thwart evil.
Unable to don that mantle when it could have saved her parents, Hupp, now 40, has been trying ever since to rally people against gun control.
When Texas debated the issue of concealed weapons in 1995, she strolled around the table at a committee hearing molding her fingers into a gun that she aimed at state senators. The next year, she ran as a Republican and won election as a state representative, an office she still holds.
"Better to be tried by 12 than carried by six," she recalls her patient advising her. Another friend gave her a pistol as a gift and taught her how to shoot it.
She carried it in her purse. But, afraid of losing her chiropractic license if she were arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, she often kept it beneath the passenger seat of her car.
That's where it was, 150 feet from Hupp's grasp, the day George Hennard burst into Luby's. The what-ifs haunt her. Hennard stood barely 10 feet from her. He was up, she was down. She had clear aim. The upturned table would have steadied her hand. Though not a crack shot, she had hit smaller targets from farther distances.
"The point is, people like this--no, scumbags like this; I won't put them in the people category--are looking for easy targets," said Hupp. "That's why we see things occurring at schools, post offices, churches and cafeterias in states that don't allow concealed carrying."
Nothing sways her. After the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, Hupp seemed to suggest that teachers should carry concealed weapons. She insists that what she said was something different:
"I wanted to know why the state treats teachers like second-class citizens, when plumbers and doctors are allowed to protect themselves on the job," she said. "I would be happier sending my child to a school where a teacher whom I trust is armed and well prepared."
She is equally oblique when talking about places where guns are banned. Even in Texas, which began allowing concealed weapons in 1996, guns are banned from several types of establishments, including churches, sports arenas, government offices, courts, airports and restaurants serving alcohol. Hupp refuses to say outright that she believes people should be allowed to carry guns to church. She picks her words carefully.
"A gun can be used to kill a family, or defend a family," Hupp said. "I've lived what gun laws do. My parents died because of what gun laws do. I'm the quintessential soccer mom, and I want the right to protect my family. What happened to my parents will never happen again with my kids there."
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[MsPony65]

Permit? As in, "Ask permission to do what is already my right and responsibility"??

No.

I will carry in the open, or concealed, but I will be at the ready to defend myself should the need ever arise. I will not beg like a slave to have what is already mine.

[fromanotherstar]

NEVER....EVER....let "them" take your guns away....FOUNDING FATHERS

[supergrover6868]

Your really a dispcibale pice of shit. To attack the women for wanting to ddefend human life really shows what a low life scum you are.. You make me sick.

[mike longshot]

Well said my dear well said....sorry for your lose to you and your family.

[Jennycara11]

This is so heartbreaking. This woman is such a well-spoken, intelligent, and beautiful person.

[Hombre Chongo]

We already have gun control. All the Communist Supporters who do not want gun, do not have gun. Already resolved. Because Commie Idiots do not want a gun, does not give them any right to infringe of my 2nd Amendment Rights. End Anti-Gentilism! Praise Jesus, the only path to God!

[Hombre Chongo]

Right on Sister. Praise Jesus. Chuck Schumer looks like an absolute prick. All his Talmudic Zionist Anti-Christ Cabal will reap what they sew.

[tinkerbellrost]

chuck schumer did not learn a thing..

[LindyMaeUSA100]

God bless Suzanna Hupp and may He raise up even more Patriots like her because she NAILED IT (i.e. the REAL reason Americans must PROTECT THEMSELVES!) when at the end of the video, that gutsy Patriot points toward the POLITICIANS in the room and said: "We have THE RIGHT to protect ourselves from YOU GUYS!" Right on Suzanna Hupp and thanks for saying it LIKE IT IS!!!

[dishesdealer417]

Nobody is requiring that you have a gun. Don't have one if you don't want one. but stop telling the rest of us that we have to follow your rules. You aren't the princess and neither is Obama.