Restrictive Gun Laws Cause Mass Murders!

After the massacre in Texas in 1991, the state, instead of blaming guns, sought to prevent such a massacre from ever happening again by making it possible for all citizens to arm themselves. The legislature and the governor quickly realized that it was their restrictive gun laws that actually caused the massacre by preventing honest gun owners from being able to defend themselves. To date, because most people in the state now carry guns freely, there has not been another mass shooting in Texas (except for Fort Hood where the federal government prohibits anyone from ever possessing a gun while on the base so the military victims were sitting ducks like ducks in a shooting gallery because the federal government prohibits service men and women from ever being able to defend themselves much like liberals in states like Connecticut forcibly make our teachers and students sitting ducks just waiting for the next madman to strike because of their so-called "gun free zones" where only criminals can possess guns and prey on innocent victims who are forced by law to be defenseless).

The Luby's massacre was a mass murder that took place on October 16, 1991, in Killeen, Texas when George Hennard (born October 15, 1956) crashed his pickup truck through the front window of a Luby's cafeteria shot 50 people (killing 23), exchanged shots with responding police, and then hid in a bathroom and fatally shot himself. It was the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history until the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.

The difference here is that instead of using the massacre to push a liberal feel good agenda, the Texas lawmakers were determined to make their citizens safer. In response to the massacre, the Texas legislature passed a shall-issue gun law, which requires that all qualifying applicants be issued a Concealed Handgun License (the state's required permit to carry concealed weapons), removing the personal discretion of the issuing authority to deny such licenses.

The law had been campaigned for by Suzanna Hupp, who was present at the time of the massacre where both of her parents were shot and killed. She later expressed regret about deciding to leave her gun in her car (the Texas law then and now still guarantees everyone in the state the right to carry all the guns they want in their car with no permit required) lest she risk possibly running afoul of the state's concealed weapons laws; during the shootings, she reached for her weapon but then remembered that it was "a hundred feet away in my car." She testified across the country in support of concealed handgun laws, and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996. The law was signed by then-Governor George W Bush.

Liberals empower more and more mass shootings by preventing honest law abiding citizens from defending themselves with feel good laws that do nothing but put more people in harm's way while conservatives like then Governor George W. Bush make their states safer by encouraging honest citizens to defend themselves. Texas is the proof that more guns means less mass shootings, since virtually everyone in the state is packing a piece and there has not been one mass shooting in in 22 years--ever since the law was changed to encourage everyone to carry a gun.

If free access to guns meant more mass shootings, then there would be mass shootings throughout Texas on an hourly basis, but the facts prove just the opposite.