WHATS IN THE NEWS
BOOGER HOOK
With a title like that you can imagine the images this congers up, but in this facepalm worthy event it’s not so trivial a matter. Seems junior went digging in his daddy’s pocket for a piece of candy but instead found the un-protected trigger of a Keltec .380. I think you know what happened next, his booger hook found the bang switch! Click to Read: Woman hit when toddler accidentally fires father’s gun in Wendy’s.
GUN BAN
Yesterday Panera made it clear that they do not want lawfully armed citizens in their restaurants. They join other companies such as Chilis, Starbucks, Target, The Mall of America and others that have made it known we are not welcome in their establishments. They do not understand, nor will they acknowledge the risk that they assume when they advertise to the criminals they are “a gun free zone”.
This contemporary situation reminds us of 1991, when the state of Texas law banned guns from restaurants. It was during this time that a violent criminal decided he would try to take as many people out in the event now known as The Luby’s Cafeteria Massacre. With no way to defend themselves, the murderer shot 50 people in the restaurant killing 23 of them including both parents of Dr. Susan Gratia-Hupp.
Hupp later expressed regret about deciding to remove her gun from her purse and lock it in her car lest she risk possibly running afoul of the state’s concealed weapons laws; during the shootings, she reached for her weapon but then remembered that it was “a hundred feet away in my car.”
As a survivor of the Luby’s massacre, Hupp testified across the country in support of concealed-handgun laws. She said that if there had been a second chance to prevent the slaughter, she would have violated the Texas law and carried the handgun inside her purse into the restaurant. She testified across the country in support of concealed handgun laws, and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996. The law was signed by then-Governor George W. Bush.
It is baffling to me the outright denial by the corporate boards who decide to ban guns in their establishments. It defies common sense and leaves them open to the type of tragedy witnessed in 1991 and many times since then. As for me and the many that agree with this opinion, we will avoid these businesses and take our money elsewhere.
Click Here to sign up for the monthly newsletter
UPCOMING COURSES
September
13th – Defensive Rifle I
20th – Defensive Handgun II
27th – Defensive Rifle II
October
4th – Defensive Handgun I