Gun Free Zones: Luby's Cafeteria, Killeen, TX - 10/16/1991

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**Gun Free Zones**
**And the devastating events that transpire in them**

Luby's Cafeteria
Killeen, Texas
10/16/1991


22 Dead
The right to carry was restricted in TX at the time.

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YouTube - Luby 's survivor Suzanna Hupp

Gun Control did not help the victims of the psychopath that entered Luby's Cafe in 1991. In fact, Gun Control helped the criminal. The law abiding citizens were unable to carry firearms for protection, and therefore creating an atmosphere of defenselessness, prone to being victimized.

Suzanna Hupp lost both her parents that day due to the fact that she was obligated by law to keep her gun in her car. A few years later she ran for office and got elected to the Texas State Legislature and helped pass a law to allow citizens of Texas to carry concealed weapons.

She remained in office for about 10 years. Too bad she left. She would have my vote any day.

YouTube - Suzanna Gratia Hupp explains meaning of 2nd Amendment!

YouTube - -Suzanna Hupp Speaks in Chicago Part 1 of 3

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She was on the Penn and Teller Stierscheisse episode on gun control. Unfortunately, most of the media likes ignore stories such as this.

 

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We need obama girl to dance around naked for second amendment rights. All I am saying is that obama girl had to account for 90 percent of his votes.

 

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YouTube - Penn and Teller - Suzanna's Gun Encounter Story

YouTube - Penn and Teller - Gun Free Zones

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Article

Shooting rampage at Killeen Luby's left 24 dead | The Chronicle's First Century | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Before Oct. 16, 1991, the Central Texas town of Killeen was perhaps best known for its proximity to the Army base at Fort Hood, and Luby's was known only regionally as a popular cafeteria chain that served a wide variety of inexpensive dishes.

But on that day, both came to be linked to what was then the worst mass murder in U.S. history.

At 12:45 p.m., 35-year-old George Hennard of nearby Belton drove his pickup truck through a window at the Killeen Luby's and killed 24 people.

His 15-minute rampage ended when he shot himself after being wounded by police officers.

A team of Chronicle reporters and photographers was dispatched immediately, arriving while victims lay where they had fallen.

Under the Thursday, Oct. 17, headline "Bloodbath in Killeen," a story by Chronicle reporter Cindy Rugeley summarized what witnesses had seen: "He calmly and methodically strolled through the cafeteria, randomly shooting innocent people as they crouched under tables. Often he would stick the gun at a victim's head or body and fire."

Details related by shocked witnesses were sometimes incorrect. An unidentified Fort Hood soldier was reported to have thrown a chair through a plate-glass window, allowing 20 or 30 people to escape.

Actually, the heroic act was performed by auto technician Tommy Vaughn, who had thrown himself, not a chair, through the window. He was treated at the hospital for deep cuts on his shoulder.

Among those Rugeley interviewed was Anica McNeil, whose mother was shot dead next to her before Hennard told her to grab her 4-year-old daughter Lakeichha and run.

The story included an officer's description of the scene: "DPS spokesman Mike Cox said after the attack that the cafeteria looked like a slaughterhouse or a scene from a movie. 'There are bodies scattered throughout the entire cafeteria,' Cox said. 'The floor is covered with broken glass, bullet holes, bullet fragments, blood. It's almost a surrealistic, nightmarish scene.' "

Mark Smith and Rugeley did a front-page feature on Eddie Sanchez and girlfriend Angela Wilson. Sanchez had just dropped off Wilson, an employee of Luby's, when he saw Hennard drive his truck through the window.

"Sanchez hollered Wilson's name. He said the man calmly looked up after shooting his second victim and fired a shot at him. 'I ducked and he didn't get a second chance,' said Sanchez, who turned and ran around to a 'food-to-go' side entrance to find Wilson."

The Chronicle immediately began trying to find out the killer's motive.

"Hennard -- described by acquaintances as being bitter, disgruntled and deranged during the past several months -- fatally shot himself after a Texas Department of Public Safety officer charged into the building and chased Hennard into a restroom."

Witness John Fitzwater told reporters, "As he shot people, he said, 'Is it all worth it, what they have done to me in Texas and Belton?' "

That same day, Kim Cobb and Steven R. Reed wrote a front-page story about a creepy letter Hennard had sent to two sisters who lived down the street from him in nearby Belton.

"Hennard wrote the letter in June to Jana Jernigan, 19, and her sister, Jill Fritz, 23. Over the space of four handwritten pages, Hennard's ramblings illustrated a fantasy relationship with the young women."

The letter read, in part, "It is very ironic about Belton, Texas. I found the best and worst in women there. You and sister are the one side. Then the abundance of evil women that make up the worst on the other side. ... I will no matter what prevail over the female vipers in those two rinky-dink towns in Texas.

"I will prevail in the bitter end."

The young women's mother, Jane Bugg, was unnerved enough to take the letter to Belton police, but got little response. She then called her daughters' father, who was the administrator of a Tennessee hospital.

"Jernigan said her father showed the letter to a staff psychiatrist, who labeled the letter an indication of obsessive infatuation with the two young women," the story said. "The psychiatrist interpreted the letter to mean that Hennard was carrying a lot of anger and humiliation that could be dangerous."

A story by business reporter Ralph Bivens told of the reaction from Luby's founder Robert M. Luby and company president Ralph Erben, who flew in immediately from San Antonio.

George Hennard's former roommate told reporter Smith he was not surprised by the murders.

" 'He talked once or twice about killing himself,' said James Dunlap of Austin, a friend of Hennard's from late 1979 to the fall of 1984.

" 'He said he didn't have any friends or girlfriends. He said he didn't respect his mother,' he said.

" 'I worked nights as a grocery stocker,' Dunlap said, 'but Hennard would get up at the crack of dawn and turn on the stereo or television. He did whatever he wanted to do.' " Among the stories on Friday, Oct. 18, was one about a frightened 19-year-old Luby's employee who spent 20 hours inside the cafeteria's dishwasher, accompanied by a photograph of him next to his hiding place.

Also on the front page was a piece on Hennard's father, a Houston doctor, and the fact he had been disciplined by the state medical board three years earlier. A photo of the elder Hennard ran on page 20, as well as photos of the two Belton women Hennard had threatened and the removal of Hennard's pickup from Luby's.

Saturday's coverage led with Gov. Ann Richards' attendance at an emotional memorial service:

"The governor spent 15 minutes inside the church, much of it with her head bowed and her forehead braced by her tightly clenched fist. She was visibly emotional, frequently dabbing at tears on her cheeks as she talked with the church's pastor."

The story also revealed that Buggs, the mother of the two threatened young Belton women, was a cousin of Richards.

A separate story ran on page 16 on McNeil, who was still reeling from seeing her mother shot dead in front of her. Also on that page was a biographical piece on Hennard.

In 1992, the Chronicle won the Team Effort Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association for its coverage. A May story quoted Judge Bob Burdick, editor of the Los Angeles Daily News:

"The Chronicle went beyond the story and delved into the increasing incidents of mass murder. This was a fine example of a newspaper team making sense of a senseless act."

On Sept. 9, 2000, the Chronicle reported that the cafeteria was closing due to competition.
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She was on the Penn and Teller Stierscheisse episode on gun control. Unfortunately, most of the media likes ignore stories such as this.

Agreed, which is pretty sad. They build up the show topics just a smidge but it's always presented in a "make-you-think" fashion.

And loooool @ Stierscheisse.