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Article: MASSACRE SPARKS ONE-WOMAN CRUSADE SURVIVOR SAYS RIGHT TO CARRY CONCEALED WEAPONS IS A WAY TO `CHANGE THE ODDS'.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 22, 1997
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Suzanna Gratia Hupp remembers reaching for a butter knife as a madman shot her parents dead at a packed cafeteria one cold October day in 1991.
``I was looking for a weapon, any weapon, because my handgun was 100 feet away, outside in my car. I made an incredibly stupid decision to follow the law, and that cost my family's lives,'' she says as she reflects on the massacre that ended with 24 people dead inside the Luby's Cafeteria at Killeen, a military town in Central Texas.
The personal tragedy launched her one-woman crusade to permit licensed owners to carry concealed weapons.
Texas lawmakers listened. In January 1996, a law took effect ...