Posted on 04/16/2007 5:20:59 PM PDT by doug from upland
NOTE: because this originally appeared in the WASH COMPOST, I had to excerpt it. The entire article is on the gun owners alliance site. ============================================================================
A Daughter's Regret
Suzanna Gratia Hupp will live the rest of her life with regret. Had she been carrying her gun the day a madman executed her parents while she cowered helplessly and then fled, she is convinced she could have stopped one of the worst massacres in U.S. history.
She has told the story many times over. Tomorrow she will relate it again before advocates of gun rights in a counter-rally to the Million Mom March. Put yourself in her shoes, she asks, and then think again whether gun control is the answer.
(Excerpt) Read more at gunownersalliance.com ...
“A gun can be used to kill a family, or defend a family,” Hupp said. “I’ve lived what gun laws do. My parents died because of what gun laws do. I’m the quintessential soccer mom, and I want the right to protect my family. What happened to my parents will never happen again with my kids there.”
SEE HUPP STICK IT TO CONGRESS IN HER TESTIMONY -— http://youtube.com/watch?v=jTainp2cY_w
Virginia Tech was a gun-free zone. Had a few well-trained citizens been carrying on the campus, many lives might have been saved today.
I think she is/was a member of the TX state legislature.
Thanks for posting this!
If anyone is interested. Very good book available for download now from freeper J. Neil Schulman. (longtime SF and 2nd amendment author)
“J. Neil Schulman’s Stopping Power Now a Free Download in response to Virginia Tech Shootings”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818390/posts
I heard her tell her story about 6 years ago, a very moving experience, everyone should hear it.
She was a member. I don’t remember when she decided not to run for re-election.
She’s interviewed in Penn and Teller’s show about gun control:
http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/60509/
Didn’t she try for US Congress?
Not sure. She served for 10 years in the Texas legislature in a traditionally Dem district.
yes!
“If guns are the problem, why don’t we see things occurring at skeet and trap shoots, at gun shows, at NRA conventions?”
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Excellent point.
“Better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.”
Another excellent point.
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