Columbine Survivor And State Legislator Proposes New Gun Bill

By Micah Rate

While survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting speak out against gun violence, call more gun control, and demand action from the president and members of Congress, another school shooting survivor is taking a different approach. This survivor also happens to be a state representative.

On April 20, 1999, Patrick Neville was a student at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. On that day, his life, the lives of his fellow students and their families, as well as lives across the country, would be changed forever. Two students entered the school grounds that morning to carry out a mass shooting. Twelve students and one teacher lost their lives. Now, Neville, almost 20 years later, is a state representative for Colorado’s 45th District.

Every year Rep. Neville introduces legislation that he believes will help prevent future tragedies like that at Columbine High School and Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida. His bill, if passed, would lessen gun restrictions in the state and allow firearms to be carried on campus.

From Business Insider:

Every year since 2014, when he joined the Colorado Legislature, Republican Rep. Patrick Neville, who was a sophomore at Columbine High School at the time of the 1999 mass …Read the Rest

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