If he can get this done, he is once again a hero!
We need him in the Governor's office... Perry is an empty suit...
He may have been a big supporter of it, but the legislator most responsible for passage was the lady who wrote the bill (after having lost both of her parents to the deranged gunman that shot all those patrons at the Luby's cafeteria in Killeen)
From The Chicago Criterian by Chris Naud:
The Luby's Cafeteria shooting is an especially sobering case of "what might have been". One woman in the Luby's lost her father when he tried to rush the gunman, and her mother when she ran to her husband's side. This woman was an expert marksman (she had gone shooting that morning) and had been illegally carrying a handgun several months prior. She almost carried her gun into the restaurant on this occasion, but as she had been told that it was illegal, remembered and left it in her truck, which she could see through the broken plate-glass window of the restaurant through the entire ordeal.Though Naud's article doesn't identify her, this woman was Suzanna Gratia Hupp, who became determined to change the law in Texas, won a seat in the Texas House, and wrote the legislation that legalized concealed carry in Texas.
Suzanna Gratia Hupp remembers reaching for a butter knife as a madman shot her parents dead at a packed cafeteria one cold October day in 1991.Not to take anything away from Patterson, but this lady is a the real Texas hero when it comes to Concealed Carry."I was looking for a weapon, any weapon, because my handgun was 100 feet away, outside in my car. I made an incredibly stupid decision to follow the law, and that cost my family's lives," she says as she reflects on the massacre that ended with 24 people dead inside the Luby's Cafeteria at Killeen, a military town in Central Texas.
The personal tragedy launched her one-woman crusade to permit licensed owners to carry concealed weapons.