Columbine Dad Reflects On Amish Shooting

On Monday, October 2, the day twelve young girls were taken hostage, and five of them executed, in a one-room Amish schoolhouse, CBS Evening News allowed Brian Rohrbough, the father of one of the students murdered at Columbine High School in 1999, to voice his reflections on their freeSpeech segment. 

In words that transcended his personal grief, Mr. Rohrbough eloquently addressed the moral decay that has led us the point where we can no longer feel that our children are safe in school.

Below we have provided a transcript of his statement, without comment.

 I'm saddened and shaken by the shooting at an Amish school today, and last week's school murders.

When my son Dan was murdered on the sidewalk at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, I hoped that would be the last school shooting. Since that day, I've tried to answer the question, "Why did this happen?"

This country is in a moral free-fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak, without moral consequences and life has no inherent value.

We teach there are no absolutes, no right or wrong. And I assure you the murder of innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion. Abortion has diminished the value of children.

Suicide has become an acceptable action and has further emboldened these criminals. And we are seeing an epidemic increase in murder-suicide attacks on our children.

Sadly, our schools are not safe. In fact, we now witness that within our schools. Our children have become a target of terrorists from within the United States.