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21st
Century Lives:
Suzanna Hupp |
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Waging
a Passionate Campaign for the Right to Bear Arms
Texas State
Representative Suzanna Hupp rides with her son. She says she“s a
"mom, not a hunter.” (ABCNEWS.com)
May 5, 2000
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By Peter Jennings
May 5 — On October 16, 1991, Suzanna Hupp was
having lunch with her parents at Luby restaurant in Killeen, Texas. A
deranged man drove a truck through the front window, running over diners
at their tables. He pulled out a gun and began shooting. Hupp’s father
intervened.
“The guy had complete control of the
situation,” remembers Hupp. “He saw my dad coming toward him, then
simply turned and shot him in the chest. My father went down.”
Hupp did have a gun that day, but it wasn’t in
her purse. In Texas, in 1991, a concealed weapon was against the law, so
she had left it in her car only 100 feet away.
“I was mad as hell at my legislators,” says
Hupp, “because they had legislated me out of the right to protect myself
and my family.”
Suzanna Hupp’s mother was also killed, along
with 22 others, before the man killed himself.
On that day in Killeen, Hupp decided that
Texas’ gun laws needed changing, and she would work to change them. In
Texas, if you take a 15-hour course about the law and about conflict
resolution, and if you have a permit, you can carry a concealed firearm.
There are similar laws in 28 other states. Suzanna Hupp is a state
legislator now.
“Over the years that I have told this story,
people here are shocked that Texas had one of the most restrictive gun
laws in the entire country. They always pictured us as you imagine: We are
all gun totin’ kind of people.”
Advocating
Self- Defense
Next weekend when something called the Million Mom March for even tougher
gun laws is on in Washington, Suzanna Hupp will be there to see that
another point of view is represented: “To let the world at large know
that these, bless their hearts, well-intentioned, but misguided, women do
not represent American women.”
Today, Rep. Hupp carries a gun with her all the
time. She and her husband, Greg, who’s a professor, teach their children
that guns are for adults. They have a child safety lock on every one they
own.
“I don’t have an affinity for guns,” says
Hupp. “To me, it’s an inanimate tool. It’s a tool that can be used
to kill a family. It’s a tool that can be used to protect a family. But
it is merely a tool.” And owning one, she says, is still her right.
“It’s a hunk of metal,” she says, “and
I’ll say again: It merely depends on who is behind it.” 
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FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN - NEVER
DISARM!
Children subjected to Government Medical experiments -
Auschwitz.
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