For roughly ten minutes at a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, a man moved from patron to patron, shooting them at close range with a Glock 17 and a Ruger P89. As police closed in, he turned one of his guns on himself, ending what was then the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The killer took the lives of 23 people on October 16, 1991, and wounded roughly two dozen more. Dozens of others survived without significant injury, carrying the memories with them for years afterward. But the massacre’s legacy echoes not just in the minds of those who made it out, but in the Texas penal code, where one can find a cluster of gun laws that have transformed the state.The 24 Luby’s…
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