Ron Lewis: “it is time for America to weep and mourn. It is time for America to cry out for her children. ``A voice was heard,'' as…”

“it is time for America to weep and mourn. It is time for America to cry out for her children. ``A voice was heard,'' as Jeremiah said in the Old Testament, ``in Ra'mah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children because they were no more.'' Mr. Speaker, Jonesboro, Arkansas, is the third small community in recent months to experience a tragedy of wholesale slaughter where children are killing children. Yes, Mr. Speaker, it is time for America to cry out and pray for her children. Every day almost 3,000 teenage girls get pregnant, over 1,000 teenage girls have abortions, over 4,200 teenagers contract a sexually transmitted disease, 135,000 children carry guns or other weapons to school, 10 children are killed by guns, 6 teenagers commit suicide, and 211 children are convicted of drug use, every single day. It is time for all of us who call ourselves Americans and love our children to be outraged, outraged at a morally corrupt culture that is alien to every tried and tested moral structure that traditionally has undergirded our Nation.”