We are trying not to judge House Minority Leader Patrick Neville by his spectacularly bad proposal to allow anyone with a concealed-carry permit – an easy-to-obtain document in Colorado – to bring their gun onto school campuses.

We’ll just leave it at expressing great gratitude to the Democrats who killed House Bill 1037 on Wednesday.

Instead we’ll judge Neville, who was a student at Columbine High School when the 1999 massacre occurred, by his much more thoughtful, albeit unsuccessful, proposal last legislative session to allow teachers who have concealed-carry licenses to carry guns on school grounds only if they also complete a local school board-approved handgun safety training course provided by a county sheriff.

Colorado law already allows school districts to certify teachers as safety officers so they can carry a concealed weapon on campus; Neville’s bill would have added an extra layer of training to that reality. Even though we are not fans of arming teachers with guns, we thought Neville’s proposal was good enough to support, especially considering the vulnerability of some rural schools without school resource officers.

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