My opinion...

On Thursday evening, DH and I attended our precious grandchildren's school Christmas program.  Our grandson is in Kindergarten and our granddaughter is in 2nd grade.  It was so much fun to see them perform.  They were exuberant and joyful and full of promise.  Little people so full of life and excited for every experience. 

Just the same, I'm sure, as the children in Newtown, Connecticut that attended Sandy Hook Elementary School.  What a heartbreaking loss to those families.  And to our country.  What does it say about us?

But more importantly, what can we do about it?  Personally, I don't think gun control is the answer.  There are so many guns out there that there is no way to get them all.  And the people that would surrender their guns are the law abiding people that wouldn't have used them in such a way in the first place.

What we need is acceptance of and no stigma attached to mental illness.  Mental illness needs to be treated and thought of the same way as cancer or any other debilitating disease.  It needs to be more thoroughly studied and researched and find ways to treat the people who suffer from it.  Because clearly, someone who can go into a school and murder little children must have had a mental illness.

This probably sounds like an overly simplistic approach but we need to start somewhere.  Obviously, our children's lives are at stake.