Edited sentence: "  Meanwhile, Brian Malte, the state legislation and politics director at the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, stated, "It's ridiculous to say someone with a gun could have saved the day... with people running all over the place and people getting caught in the crossfire."  The state of Illinois has a statewide ban on the carrying of loaded handguns." Lewis responded by saying, "She had been carrying the gun for several years for personal protection, and because she was a chiropractor she had become worried that because there was no legal provision for concealed carry in Texas at the time that if she got caught carrying that gun she might lose her chiropractic license, so she started leaving it in the car." The article also said, "Malte says his group opposes the concealed-carry legislation, because allowing firearms to saturate college campuses, where young people drink heavily and live communally, would only heighten the danger of deadly violence.A woman with a concealed-carry permit was unable to stop a gunman from killing her parents and 21 others in 1991 because she had left her gun in her car to avoid breaking the state's law at the time, which banned gun owners from carrying their weapons into public places.After the shooting, Newsweek reporter Suzanne Smalley interviewed people from both sides of the gun control debate.Scott Lewis, a board member and spokesman for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.Smalley interviewed W.Smalley stated, "There's a famous example in Luby's Cafeteria in Texas.When this shooting started she reached into her purse for a gun that wasn't there and basically watched both of her parents be gunned down by this madman because she was unable to defend herself