After a shooting at Washington Middle School in Albuquerque, Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, (D-Bernalillo) is working to resuscitate a law that would make it an offense to leave guns unsecured. 

According to KOB4, if "Bennie's Law" is passed, the bill would make the owner of an unsecured gun used by a child to commit a crime able to be found guilty of a misdemeanor.

 "An unsecure gun causes situations like we just saw," Sedillo Lopez said of the Friday shooting. “Right now, the parent has no legal consequence for allowing that gun to be available to the 13-year-old. My wish is the parent would have understood that by law the firearm should have been secured, and it wouldn't have happened at all.”

Sedillo Lopez believes her bill is part of a solution to help end gun violence committed by children, KOB4 reported. 

Rep. Bill Rehm (R-Bernalillo) told KOB4 that this bill actually violations the 2008 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that allows for people to have guns readily available for self-defense. 

“First of all, all of us are greatly upset by this tragedy. The fact that the dad discovered the gun was gone and went to the school but was just a little bit late is troubling. Iif he could have been there 30 minutes earlier that could have prevented it,” Rehm said. “We also have kids at the school who saw the gun and didn't tell anyone, so there were missed opportunities that could have stopped this.”

Sedillo Lopez told KOB4 that those missed opportunities began in the legislature.