I'm old enough to remember the Luby shootings.

[leVieux]

I was in my 40's, working as a Physician @ St. David's, Austin. leVieux

 

[skfullgun]

I remember a man walking on the moon, but Luby's is a blur. I got oldtimers disease.

Didn't you eat there last Sunday? They have lots of food that is easy to chew! Just funnin'!

 

[diesel1959]

Although I was in Colorado at the time, it made national news. My question is: Anyone in here from Texas that was old enough to remember that horrible day?

My wife and I moved to Houston in 1990 and we both most definitely remember the 1991 Luby's shootings. I was 32 and in my last year of law school. It was one of the tectonic shifts that would finally see Texans win the right to have concealed handgun licenses. I refuse to write or speak the name of perpetrators of mass murders. They do not deserve recognition, mention, or notoriety.

 

[SloppyShooter]

Didn't you eat there last Sunday? They have lots of food that is easy to chew! Just funnin'!

Might have....hopefully, I remembered to wear pants. Ahhh, Luby's, the old folks school lunch line....

I actually like eating at all you can eat buffet restaurants. I can always find something I can eat, and it is ridiculously cheap, even for a guy like me, that can't put it away like I used to.

To start off: a plate of sushi, $10 easy elsewhere. Then a myriad of different stuff, $15 at any sit down place. Finally , peach cobbler topped with ice cream. $3.50 prolly elsewhere. All this for like $7.

 

[Wildcat Diva]

I was twenty one. Probably too busy being a ditzy girl to notice much about this. I barely remember this and Waco too. I wasn’t very street smart then, or very aware.

 

[SloppyShooter]

Now, Waco, I remember .

I guess Luby's ....I just figured if the crazy hadn't killed them the food would have.

What's all that paper rustling? Oh yeah, spreadsheets .

 

[skfullgun]

Now, Waco, I remember .

Me, too. Our gov killed innocent Patriots.

Just leave me alone.

 

[SloppyShooter]

Patriots? Those folks were a bit off. If they had Kool-aid, the government wouldn't have had to bother.

They committed mass suicide. The only thing missing was the purple jumpsuits. Suicide by cop .

 

[skfullgun]

I believe in limited govt. Leave people who are not hurting others the hell alone.

 

[skfullgun]

My apologies. I've been drinking and confused Waco with Ruby Ridge.

 

[skfullgun]

Yes, Waco was reminiscent of Jim Jones.

 

[skfullgun]

I'll be putting myself to bed shortly.

 

[SloppyShooter]

My apologies. I've been drinking and confused Waco with Ruby Ridge.

That's ok, but not sharing is unacceptable, I hope you brought enough for the whole class!

 

[BRD@66]

My apologies. I've been drinking and confused Waco with Ruby Ridge.

I have an easily-identifiable geographic location on my property aptly named "Ruby Ridge" and another named "the Grassy Knoll". No body of water named the "Davidian Branch" (yet).

 

[majormadmax]

I was only 11, but I remember it. If anyone hasn't seen Dr Susan Hupps testimony to Congress, I highly recommend you watch it. It's such a powerful speach on why we should have the right to carry, and she talks about being helpless while watching her parents get murdered.

Yep, the most heartbreaking aspect of her testimony is the fact she had to leave her firearm in her truck before entering the restaurant! One armed citizen could have saved a lot of lives that day! Thank God some good came from that horrible situation, but we still have a long way to go in ensuring that law-abiding citizens have the means and capability to protect themselves, their loved ones and others from such heinous individuals to the best of their ability!

Oh, and I was 28 living just south of Baltimore at the time. I don't recall hearing about the shooting, but I am sure it was on the news. Unfortunately, given where I was living, local shootings were much more newsworthy at the time...

 

[rexster314]

Was a senior in college and beertender at East Gate lounge in College Station, Texas when Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower, so yes.

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I was working at my Dad's Exxon/Enco/Humble station on Hwy 6 that day. Friend came in and said "there's a guy on top of the UT tower killing people"

 

[BRD@66]

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I was working at my Dad's Exxon/Enco/Humble station on Hwy 6 that day. Friend came in and said "there's a guy on top of the UT tower killing people"

I was driving a combine in San Gabriel, TX - just north of Thorndale.

 

[dsgrey]

Remember it well since I was in my late 20's at the time. What sticks more in my memory was Delta flight 191 crashing in 1985 since I lived closer to that event.

 

[Charlie]

I lived and worked construction in Waco until '88. Ate there every so often when working in Killeen. Moved to Kerrville in '88. I was in my 40s.

 

[leVieux]

My apologies. I've been drinking and confused Waco with Ruby Ridge.

It's OK. . . . . . .

we resemble. . . . .

leVieux