Tucked behind the community center here in Killeen is a memorial to the often unremembered 1991 Luby’s Shooting.

The perpetrator drove his truck into a crowded restaurant, got out and started shooting. He was killed in a shootout with police.

It was the third largest mass shooting in the US, and the largest that didn’t occur in a school (and isn’t that a whole secondary level of awful). 23 were killed, 27 wounded. 14 of those killed were women, and it was reported that he specifically targeted females.

This shooting is what brought concealed carry to Texas, as one of the survivors campaigned for it. She’d had a gun in her car, but hadn’t carried it into the restaurant and believed that if she’d had it, maybe she could have stopped him. It was signed into law in 1995 by then Governor George W Bush.

So yes, that’s two shootings twenty years apart that this town’s known for. This one and the Fort Hood shooting in 2009. The memorial to the Fort Hood shooting victims is at a different location.