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Originally Posted by Redlemon
I'm not anti-gun, I don't really think about the topic much, so let's just say I'm "non-gun". Here's my off-the-cuff thought about your question...
If someone is carrying a gun, it seems to me that they are thinking about using it. Not necessarily wanting to use it, but the gun is on your hip, so it is on your mind. I extend that to believe that someone carrying a gun would see the world as a dangerous place, and would examine each person they meet and each situation that they enter with the mindset, "Will I need to defend myself?".
Perhaps I'm a pollyanna, but I don't see the world this way. Perhaps someday I or someone I love will die because I wasn't prepared to defend myself. Nonetheless, I will enjoy the time I have up to that point, because I won't fear the world.
Again, this isn't something I generally think about, so please excuse me if these thoughts aren't complete.
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While you are perfectly within your right to feel that way, Tragedies happen that often change peoples minds. Of course, by that time its way too late to do anything about it.
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Suzanna Gratia and as well as 45 other people, probably felt the same way on Oct. 16th, 1991 when a man named George Hennard plowed his truck through the main windows of a Lubys restaraunt in Killeen texas. He got out of his truck and started walking around the place shooting people. He didn't run around firing as fast as he could. He calmly walked around and picked targets at random.
Dr. Gratia was hiding behind a table with her parents when she reached in to her purse for her .38 revolver when she realized that she had left it locked in her trunk. See, she was obeying a gun control law that forbid people to carry concealed weapons in public and she did not want to be caught breaking the law by carrying it in her purse.
So while Hennard is strolling around the cafeteria shooting people in the head, Suzannas father decides he has to do something so he charges at Hennard. Hennard turned around and shot her father once in the chest. While Hennard is reloading, Suzanna grabs at her mothers hand and makes a beeline for the broken main windows. Once she cleared the window, Suzanna turned around looking for her mother but she wasn't there. Suzannas mother had instead crawled over to her dying husband, putting his head in her lap. Suzanna remembers watching helplessly as George Hennard walked over to her mother and pointed the gun at her head. Mrs. Gratia simply looked up at Hennard, then bowed her head as Hennard shot her.
23 people were killed and another 20+ were wounded by Hennards gunfire. It took 10 minutes for the first cop to show up. After being wounded by police, Hennard stumbled to the back of the Cafeteria and took his own life.
How many lives could have been saved if only Dr. Gratia had put her gun in her purse, instead of obeying a gun control law?
Because of this massacre, Dr. Gratia became a champion of self defense rights.
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 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."
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Feel free to be a 'pollyanna', red, but others have thought the same thing.
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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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