This is certainly a story that will get the gun-control crowd riled up.

Rep. Patrick Neville, R-Castle Rock, has introduced a bill in the Colorado legislature that would allow individuals with concealed carry permits the right to concealed carry firearms in public schools. Mr. Neville’s proposed legislation is sure to cause controversy in the anti-gun community, because he was a high school student during one of the worst school shootings in modern history. Mr. Neville was a student at Columbine High School in 1999 when two of his classmates went on a rampage, killing twelve of his fellow students.

Patrick Neville believes by allowing licensed individuals with concealed carry permits to carry firearms in public schools that the students will be safer. Neville is by no means the first person to offer this solution. Gun rights activists have been calling for qualified adults to have access to firearms for many years.

From the Denver Post:

“This bill will allow honest law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed firearm for protection if they choose to,” Neville said in a news release. “But most importantly, it will give them the right to be equipped to defend our children from the most dangerous situations.” He is sponsoring the bill with his father, Sen. Tim Neville, R-Littleton. The family is known for its support for fewer gun restrictions. House Bill 1198 has been assigned to the Democratic-controlled House State Affairs committee. It is not one of the seven gun bills scheduled to be heard today. An April 2014 poll from Quinnipiac University found 50 percent of Colorado voters supported allowing teachers and school officials to carry guns on school grounds. Men supported the measure 59 percent to 38 percent while were opposed 51 to 42 percent.

This bill likely will not make it out of the Democratic-controlled House State Affairs committee, but the fact that it was proposed at all is significant. This bill attacks the old paradigm that prohibiting guns from schools makes them safer.

This legislation runs counter to the status quo. It would begin a new chapter in public school (or any “public” space) security, which utilizes the exercising of individual rights, rather than the restriction of rights, as a means of increasing safety.

Many in the liberty movement feel this change is long overdue, but most mainstream-media-consuming citizens are uncomfortable with the idea of a licensed individual carrying a firearm in a school zone.

Since George H.W. Bush signed the Gun Free School Zones Act into law in 1990, most people have bought into the illogical equation that guns equal danger, rather than applying rational logic to determine that guns are simply an object. But like so many other objects, they can be used to harm others, or to protect individuals from harm. The result is dependent upon the user’s intent and is not an inherent characteristic of the object.

Banning guns without consent is a violation of individual rights. The current gun free zone laws do not have the consent of the governed, thus they are a violation of individual rights. Under the current system of government, it is hard to imagine a scenario where a law restricting guns would be developed without coercion. But this isn’t to say such a law or agreement is not possible in a more free society.

If individuals in a community all agreed that they abhor guns and consented to banning firearms on their adjoining property, this is their right. Infringing upon this man-made law by carrying a firearm onto the property would infringe upon the property owners’ individual rights and would merit punishment per the agreed upon law.

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