Tom Tancredo: “My wife and I have four children who are all in different schools everyday. As we grieve for the parents of the children…”

“My wife and I have four children who are all in different schools everyday. As we grieve for the parents of the children killed in Colorado, we also join every parent in America as we fear for the safety of our own children. Congress must be a part of eliminating this danger, because one of the most important roles of government is to keep our citizens safe, especially our children. We must do more to protect Americans against senseless violence. But our goal to make America safer cannot be achieved with knee-jerk solutions that are blurted out in haste every time there is a tragedy. So as we condemn this horrible act, let us also commit as a Congress and as a Nation to seriously study and seek to understand the causes of this violence and to develop a comprehensive plan to make our children safer and more secure in their schools. But to get the right answers, we have to ask the right questions. And I hope one of the questions will be, have we created a spiritual void in our schools which is now being filled with drugs and sex and violence? It is clear there were very deep spiritual problems in this case. Yet, we prohibit the free participation in spiritual and religious activities in our schools.”