On April 20, 1999, we were all shocked by a shooting by two students at Columbine High School. Patrick Neville, now a Colorado State Representative, is a survivor of that shooting. On February 24, 2016, USA Today posted an article about some of his comments on guns in schools. In view of the recent attacks on the Second Amendment, I wanted to post his comments.

The article reports:

Colorado State Rep. Patrick Neville, a survivor of the Columbine High School shooting, introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow guns in Colorado schools.

Neville was a student at Columbine on April 20, 1999, when two peers opened fire, killing 13 people.

“The only thing that is going to stop murderers intent on doing harm is to give good people the legal authority to carry a gun to protect themselves and our children,” Neville said in a statement, according to The Hill.

“More of my friends would still be alive today.”

The bill put forward by Neville, a Republican, would let teachers with concealed weapons permits carry guns at the state’s schools in an attempt to halt future shootings.

Neville introduced the same bill last year, which failed.

“Unfortunately, the current system continues to leave our children as sitting targets for criminals intent on doing harm,” he said.

This is the voice of someone who survived a school shooting. Had there been a good guy with a gun at Columbine High School, the death toll would have been considerably lower. Gun free zones are an invitation to mentally unbalanced people with bad intentions looking for easy targets.