Where Do We Start?

My question is where do we start?

I am new to the blogging thing, and as you can see my first two posts where about one of the Newtown victims, Noah Pozner. I found that Noah's expressive face has just stayed with me and I attribute that to the fact that he and my son look a lot alike. I cannot imagine the crushing grief that the families of the victims feel. I grieve for them and for the children that they lost. While reading about Noah I came across a blog that his grandmother has for bread baking called, Farine

www.farine-mc.com/. I have found her posts beautifully written, emotional and so touching. She has written about Noah and shared photos of him so that we too can get a glimpse of who this little boy was. I mention this because by reading her posts about Noah we are reminded of the heartbreak that these families are going through and in turn, it may prompt us to use our anger and despair at this loss of life to demand change.

 

So, that is why I ask....where do we start? I am sad, heartbroken and angry that this senseless act happened, and may very well happen again unless we make a collective effort to demand changes to our gun laws, and our broken mental health system. As parents we have to do our own soul searching and decide that we will make sure that we are taking an active role in monitoring what our children are watching and what video games they're playing. This has to be an across the board effort to make change. We cannot just demand gun control as many have, but we need to look at all options. My hope is that we can agree to disagree, but ultimately come to some common consensus as to how we can change our world. This is not the type of world that I want my children to have to grow up in. I do not like being afraid to send my children to school. So again...where do we start and are we willing to make sacrifices so that another Newtown does not happen?