Mass Shooting Changes Chiropractor’s Life

[Katya Mullethov]

Mass Shooting Changes Chiropractor’s Life



From Luby’s to the Legislature
One Woman’s Fight Against Gun Control
By Suzanna Gratia Hupp

The mass shooting at Luby’s Cafeteria in Central Texas made news around the world and turned an unknown chiropractor into a national champion for the right of ordinary citizens to carry guns for self-defense.

Suzanna Gratia, then 32, was having lunch with her parents at the restaurant in Killeen that day in October 1991 when a man crashed his pickup through a window and began shooting people. When the shooting stopped, her mother and father were dead along with 22 other people, including the shooter.

No one was interviewed more about that shooting than Suzanna Gratia Hupp (her married name). She became an icon for gun rights and the Second Amendment because she was not afraid to be interviewed by the news media and because she told them what they did not expect hear. She wasn’t mad at the shooter – how can you be mad at a rabid dog? – and she did not blame guns. She blamed politicians (and told Chuck Schumer to his face that the 2nd Amend. is to protect her from him.) who had legislated away her right to carry a gun to protect herself and her family.

No one has had more to do with passing the rash of state concealed-carry laws that swept the country in the 1990s allowing ordinary law-abiding citizens to carry handguns for self-defense. She has told her story to the national media and has testified before Congress and numerous state legislatures. She served for 10 years in the Texas Legislature. Now she has put it all down in a memoir entitled From Luby’s to the Legislature: One Woman’s Fight Against Gun Control.


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[eqfan592]

1. Thanks for the post :)

And down with drive by unrecers!!

[GreenStormCloud]

2. Thanks to her, and others like her, my wife is alive.

She used her gun to prevent herself from being murdered. No shots fired. Criminal saw that she was armed and ran like hell.

I just ordered a copy from Amazon.

[geckosfeet]

3. NY state carry laws are far too restrictive. Probably the worst in the country.

[east texas lib]

4. Here's a link to the testimony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgrIsuO5PLc

Schumer's expression is priceless.

[TPaine7]

5. Thanks for the link N/T

[east texas lib]

7. You're quite welcome. (nt)

[TPaine7]

6. K&R and thanks for the post!

[Katya Mullethov]

8. No need

Just another drive by posting .

[PavePusher]

9. Drive by again... n/t

[RamboLiberal]

10. Thanks for posting - this is one I want to read n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Out of curiousity

Was there anyone in this audience unaware of this incident?

I mean, yeah, great and all, it's a good story, but it's OLD. She should be old news to anyone on either side of this debate.

[PavePusher]

12. Old news =/= Irrelevent news.

Sometimes you just have to keep beating the mule over the head with the clueX4...

[Katya Mullethov]

13. She wrote a book , publishihng date Oct 09

I am amazed it took me this long to find out about it .

[Euromutt]

14. Well, I for one was unaware she was a chiropractor

If her campaign to revise gun laws in Texas kept her from practicing chiro for a few years, that's an added bonus to the story.