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.