At one time – between my turning into a conservative and, say, about 1990 – opposition to gun control was an intellectual, philosophical thing. Oh, I’d had my own episode, but for the most part the Second Amendment wasn’t much more immediate to me than the Third.
Then the Luby’s Cafeteria Massacre happened – and Suzanne Gratia Hupp’s testimony…:
…turned it into an intense, passionate commitment.
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Wow, Mitch!
I have never seen this before! What a brave lady and funny, she wasn’t a “ranting, raving luncatic” that the left spews are gun owners.
Texas is a funny state though. When I lived there, it was legal to have loaded rifles and/or shotguns on a headache rack in your pickup truck, as long as they were in plain view. During the same time period, open container was also legal! That said, if you were pulled over and found to be DWI or DUI under Texas’ legal definition, the penalties were severe. In 1987, the law was changed to open container was now restricted to passengers only. Go figure!
Look at those smug bastards listening to her testimony.
“Look at those smug bastards listening to her testimony.”
And every one of them is missing her point; if a nut job like George Hennard, the murderer, wants to kill people that way, he will get guns through any means possible. He was a typical coward though, killing himself after the police wounded him. Just as well. It saved the tax payers a lot of money to convict, incarcerate and execute him.
As I remember she went on to beat Democratic opponents 6 times for a seat Texas House of Reps. That’s one way to give the dickens to the “smug bastards”!
Scott;
As Ed McMahon would have said; “You are correct, Sir!”
I had left TX by the time she got into office and I lived in Houston, but the people that I know that live in her district, loved her. They were also very disappointed when she chose not to run for another term. Being the honorable and savvy person that she is, she emposed her own term limits.
We could only be so lucky as to have about 1,000 more elected officials that would do the same.
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