Telemachus "Tel" Orfanos died in the Borderline Bar shooting.

He survived the shooting last year at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, but lost his life at Borderline bar.

Orfanos worked as a bouncer at the bar. On the day of the shooting, he didn’t have a shift but went there to pick up a check.

Tel's mother, Susan Schmidt-Orfanos, has been vocal about her frustration with people who own expanded magazines, automatic and semi-automatic weapons.

Schmidt-Orfanos sat down with Inside the Issues host Alex Cohen to discuss the pain of losing her son, and her desire for tighter gun control laws.

"The first dead body I ever saw was my son. And well, we went to say goodbye to him," she said. "The mortuary had to pull the blanket all the way up and around his neck because of the injuries he sustained. I couldn’t wrap my arms around my son to say goodbye because of the damage inflicted on him."

"The fact that someone out there could wrap their arms around their weapons, and they are weapons of mass destruction, that that’s more important to them than my son or anyone else that’s been killed in these shootings with these types of weapons, I think those people are lost already,” she said.