The "G" word

On the tenth of October, a barely a week after the tragic events at an Amish school in Pennsylvania, the American president, attorney general and education secretary attended a conference on school safety in Maryland.

They had an interesting little three way discussion about what can be done to make schools safer. Guess what word didn't come up? (A hint: it starts with the letter g.) No. Not "Google". "Guns". You'd think school kids were being shot with bean bags or bows and arrows.

I'm sorry. The word guns did come up. But only in the following nauseating poem, and I use the term loosely, by one Craig Scott whose sister was one of the victims in Columbine.

"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 law

through legislative creed,

and yet you failed to understand

that God is what we need."

If we just let prayer back into schools no one will die. Well guess what Craig. The school in Nickel Mines was a private, religious school. I would assume that they were not only allowed to prayer but required to do so. It doesn't seem to help.

Remember. Guns don't kill people. Atheists do.