The difference a single gun could have made

It was five years ago this month that a crazed gunman entered Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth. Its a church I never went to growing up, but I passed it often throughout my life. It was on the way to my favorite mall as a teen and as an adult it was located down the street from the nursing home where my grandmother lived.

On Sept. 15, 1999, a man entered the church where youth groups from children to teens were meeting and he opened fire. By the time it was over, seven people at the church were dead before the gunman turned his firearm on himself.

What a difference a CHL holder could have made that day.

What a difference it may have made for this mother who lost her son. I don't agree with her opinions on gun control, but her loss is still tragic. Funny how people take different reads on tragedies like this. Texas Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp regrets not carrying her gun that day in Luby's in Killeen when her parents were gunned down by a madman with a gun. She was a giant proponent for the concealed handgun license in Texas.

I'm grateful for that. I feel safer when Army of Dad is armed. He would carry his firearm into mass each Sunday when we went and I was glad. Especially after Sept. 15, 1999.