Here's wishing you and yours a happier and healthier new year.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Feeling Helpless
It has been a rough 5 days for our country. Feeling so sad and helpless has just drained me. I can't imagine what those families in Newtown are going through. Wanting to help but not knowing how, I ran across these websites for adding my name to the call for sensible gun control and more help for addressing mental health issues.
http://signon.org/sign/gun-control-now-1?source=s.em.mt&r_by=806044
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/address-shortcomings-current-mental-health-system-prevent-risk-people-becoming-violent-offenders/3sRkLcj6
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/seriously-respectfully-and-quickly-work-end-violence-committed-assault-weapons/ZJQwY22g
The third component, as I see it, is requiring media responsibility in how violence is portrayed in movies, TV, video games, music and news programming. I know that censorship is an ugly word, but the constant exposure to killing is even uglier. And murdering our children is uglier yet. Something has to change.