Well, that ‘we’ isn’t as inclusive as might be thought.<\/p>\n
We Still Haven’t Learned The Lessons Of Luby’s 30 Years Later<\/a><\/p>\n Luby\u2019s Cafeteria is one of the earlier mass shootings of our modern era. Predating Columbine, it was a nightmare scenario that the city of Killean, TX is still reeling from 30 years later. That\u2019s certainly understandable.<\/p>\n After all,\u00a0it was something so unexpected<\/a>\u00a0that it would be difficult not to reel.<\/p>\n The tragic Luby\u2019s Cafeteria massacre in Killeen left survivors, residents, and city leaders hoping and praying such a senseless, murderous incident would never happen again in the United States.<\/p>\n \u201cNo community is, or could ever be, prepared for the tragedy which struck Killeen on October 16, 1991,\u201d said a 1991 Herald thank-you-to-first-responders display ad from then-Mayor Major Blair and Killeen City Council. \u201cOur hope and prayers are that a similar event will never again occur in any community.\u201d<\/p>\n At the time, the Luby\u2019s tragedy was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, however, that\u2019s no longer the case.<\/p>\n In the three decades since George \u201cJoJo\u201d Hennard, 35, of Belton, drove his blue Ford Ranger pickup through a plate glass window of Luby\u2019s Cafeteria in Killeen and murdered 23 Luby\u2019s Cafeteria lunchtime diners on National Bosses Day, America has mourned 111 mass shootings, eight of those in Texas, in which 846 people were killed, according to a mass shooting database by nonprofit Mother Jones.<\/p>\n Two of those mass shootings occurred at Fort Hood, in 2009 and 2014, in which 16 people were killed in all.<\/p>\n In the decade prior to the Luby\u2019s massacre, according to the mass shooting database, America had nine mass shootings, classified as an attack where three or more victims are killed in a public place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It\u2019s awful.<\/p>\n One thing everyone can probably agree on is that we haven\u2019t learned our lessons since then. The problem is that we don\u2019t agree on what those lessons actually are.<\/p>\n For the anti-Second Amendment jihadists, though, the lessons are \u201cguns r teh badz.\u201d Never you mind that five people were just murdered with a bow and arrow last week, the problem truly is guns.<\/p>\n Yet there was an actual lesson here:<\/p>\n Former state representative and Luby\u2019s survivor Suzanna Hupp, lost both of her parents in the Luby\u2019s shooting. Hupp, who lobbies for looser gun control laws, said she would\u2019ve been able to stop the shooter if Texas had allowed concealed carry in 1991. She had a handgun at the time, but left it in her vehicle because of the law at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n DING DING DING! We have a winner!<\/p>\n Luby\u2019s was a target in part because people couldn\u2019t carry a firearm there. There was little to no chance of meeting armed resistance. Hupp would have been in a position to end the attack before it really got going, but she complied with the law. We saw the\u00a0same thing happen<\/a>\u00a0in Virginia Beach, too.<\/p>\n What\u2019s that phrase? \u201cIf it saves just one life,\u201d or something like that? Yeah, I think that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n Look, I\u2019m not saying ending gun-free zones will put an end to mass shootings. I think it\u2019ll stop a lot of them, but someone will still try to shoot up places for whatever demented reason.<\/p>\n What I will say is that we can specifically point to two cases\u2013and who knows how many others we\u2019re unaware of\u2013where someone was barred from carrying a gun, so they were unarmed when a mass shooting happened. If it wouldn\u2019t have made a difference in any of the others, it would have at least saved lives in Luby\u2019s Cafeteria and in Virginia Beach.<\/p>\n But I don\u2019t believe they were the only two cases, either. They\u2019re just the two I know of definitively.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the lesson we can\u2019t seem to learn. We can\u2019t seem to grasp that bad things are going to happen. You\u2019re never going to stop that. But you can minimize the damage by trusting law-abiding citizens with the very rights protected in the Constitution, including the right to keep\u00a0and bear<\/em>\u00a0arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, that ‘we’ isn’t as inclusive as might be thought. We Still Haven’t Learned The Lessons Of Luby’s 30 Years Later Luby\u2019s Cafeteria is one of the earlier mass shootings of our modern era. Predating Columbine, it was a nightmare scenario that the city of Killean, TX is still reeling from 30 years later. 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