Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.

Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question 'Why?'

You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!

(Darrel Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Address to the House Judiciary Committee's sub-committee.)