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11/5/2009

Fort Hood Shooting Brings Back Memories

Filed under: General — DRJ @ 9:26 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Fort Hood is located in central Texas near the town of Killeen, Texas. Sadly, Killeen is now the site of two tragic mass murders — today’s shooting at Fort Hood and the 1991 Luby’s massacre that killed 24 people.

Seven of today’s wounded were initially taken to Killeen’s Metroplex Adventist Hospital. Hospital spokeswoman Susan Kolobziejczyk said it brought back memories of the Luby’s shooting:

“Kolobziejczyk was a local television reporter when the Killeen Luby’s massacre happened in 1991.

“This brings up familiar emotions but I think (the) Luby’s (incident) did unfortunately prepare us for situations like these.”

The hospital had planned a fundraising gala tonight. The event will go on with all proceeds benefiting today’s victims and their families.

— DRJ

3 Responses to “Fort Hood Shooting Brings Back Memories”

  1. Luby’s! I remember my grandmother liked to go to Luby’s … it was near her house but she liked it for whatever reason. So we’d meet her there for dinner every so often. Mom hated it. Hated it. But she went. I think it’s one of the earliest things where I was aware that grownups did stuff even when they didn’t want to. Grandma carried a gun sometimes, a little lady’s pistol… the kind with the mother of pearl handle and such. We didn’t live in Killeen though, but things might could have gone down different if Luby guy had driven south aways.

    I usually got this sort of breaded yet baked fish that they always served with a lemon wedge and tartar sauce. I can’t remember the last time I had tartar sauce.

    Here’s the California equivalent of what happened at Luby’s.

    happyfeet (f62c43)

  2. Law Abiding citizens should be permitted to be armed with guns as our Second Amendment clearly states! Put one or two armed citizens in Luby’s or at Fort Hood yesterday and the number of victims would have been greatly reduced. One of the strongest proponants of Concealed Carry laws is a woman whose parents were killed a Luby’s. She had left her pistol in the car and I’ve seen video of her testimony before Congress. If she would have been armed the death toll at Luby’s probably would have been something like 2-4 instead of 24.

    “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

    Look up “to bear” in any dictionary of your choice: it will say to bear = to carry.

    In every state where concealed carry has been allowed the crime rates have dropped. Read John Lott’s book “More guns, less crime.”

    There have been numerous cases where private citizens have stopped insane individuals who were going on a rampage because they were themselves armed with guns. However, the liberal hack so called journalists in this country do everything they can to bury this information because it doesn’t fit with their anti-gun narrative.

    J. Raymond Wright (d83ab3)

  3. Interesting that the two safest places to commit a mass-murder are at a school, or at a military facility, where everyone, through either law or regulation, is dis-armed.

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