Posted on 04/17/2009 9:13:15 AM PDT by HotLead61
Darrell Scott-What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.
April 02, 2008 04:40 PM EDT views: 51 | rating: 10/10 (9 votes) | comments: 12 Please read the following:
Guess our national leaders didn't expect this, hmm? On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton , Colorado , was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.
They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness. The following is a portion of the transcript:
"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers. !
"The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart.
"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death. Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent.
I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.
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!
"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs -- politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors . No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.
"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA -- I give to you a sincere challenge. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!
My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"
You may already realize this, but he must have thought you were referring to the date that Columbine actually happened?
Impossible to have a celebration and ignore the events of the day, so one of the guests played and sang Amazing Grace - very moving.
RIP the innocent victims of Columbine.
I just remember walking out of a seminar into the hotel lobby, and seeing it on the tv screen there...within two minutes there was a large crowd of watching and waiting for word as to what was actually happening. It was surreal standing next to a Mossad agent and a Brit counter terrorism expert and just listening to their running commentary.
Rachel lives!
Columbine Memorial Ping.
The posting credit goes to ‘HotLead61’. :-)
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Thanks, wkwe, you’re too kind.
I just hope I’ve got half the guts that Rachel Scott and her Dad have shown.
So say we all...
BTTT
And they HAD to?
It seems like Georgetown is the sellout!
Take God out of the classroom, and replace the patriot's gun with the abortionist's scalpel, and it's no wonder we continue to see more events like the Columbine shooting.
I had not seen this before. What a powerful message this man has. Thank you for posting it.
VirginiaMom
10 years already?
Man I was in High School when it happened (11th grade)
Amazing, isn’t it? I just saw on Huckabee (Fox News) an interview with one of the students who was actually well-acquainted with the 2 gunners, and who was at the school that day. That “kid” (Brooks Brown) certainly doesn’t look like a high-schooler anymore.
* BOOKS
* APRIL 18, 2009
A Nightmare Re-Examined
Debunking myths and finding the real story behind a school massacre
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were not the first young men to walk into an American high school on a mission of terror and murder, but their rampage 10 years ago was such that the school’s name alone still evokes harrowing memories. At the time, the Columbine massacre was the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history; 12 students and a teacher were killed, and Harris and Klebold committed suicide. It remains the bloodiest attack at any high school — and almost certainly is beset with more misconceptions than any other shooting, too.
excerpt
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124001474857430973.html
Columbine transformed police tactics; cops now trained to bring down the shooter right away
P. SOLOMON BANDA | Associated Press Writer
12:30 PM EDT, April 18, 2009
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — The first officers on the scene had never trained for what they found at Columbine High School: No hostages. No demands. Just killing.
In the hours that followed, the nation watched in horror as the standard police procedure for dealing with shooting rampages in the U.S. proved tragically, heartbreakingly flawed on April 20, 1999.
Two officers exchanged fire with one of the teenage gunmen just outside the school door, then stopped — as they had been trained to do — to wait for a SWAT team. During the 45 minutes it took for the SWAT team to assemble and go in, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot 10 of the 13 people they killed that day.
The killers committed suicide around the time the makeshift SWAT team finally entered. But the SWAT officers took several hours more to secure the place, moving methodically from room by room. One of the wounded, teacher Dave Sanders, slowly bled to death.
excerpt
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-columbine-active-shooter,0,3891340.story
I bought and till have that book that Darrell Scott and his ex-wife (Rachael Scott’s parents) wrote called Rachael’s Tears. It was a pretty good book for someone who doesn’t write books. Whenever I think of Columbine I think of Cassie Bernall and the stories about herbeing ased if she believed in God or not before they shot her (some say this did not happen - others say it did).
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