In gun control plea Yoko Ono tweets pic of John Lennon’s bloodied glasses

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In case you forgot, yesterday was the 44th anniversary of Yoko Ono’s marriage to John Lennon, and she marked the occasion by offering a personal, and graphic, statement on the gun-control debate by tweeting, a total of four times, a photo of Lennon’s bloodstained glasses.

The image of Lennon's glasses tweeted by Yoko Ono. (Twitter/ yokoono)
The image of Lennon’s glasses tweeted by Yoko Ono. (Twitter/ yokoono)

Better known among her nearly 3.7 million Twitter followers for more gnomic 140-character missives – “You are water. I’m water. We’re all water in different containers. That’s why it’s so easy to meet. Someday we’ll evaporate together.” – Yoko Ono has taken to the social network site to offer a more visceral message, tweeting an image of John Lennon‘s bloodstained glasses as part of a call for greater gun control.

“We are turning this beautiful country into a war zone,” she wrote. “After 33 years our son Sean and I still miss him.” The photo was also used on a 1981 album cover, notes the Telegraph.

John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on 8 December 1980. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono.

Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where it was stated that nobody could have lived for more than a few minutes after sustaining such injuries. Shortly after local news stations reported Lennon’s death, crowds gathered at Roosevelt Hospital and in front of the Dakota. Lennon was cremated on 10 December 1980 at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York; the ashes were given to Ono, who chose not to hold a funeral for him. The first report of Lennon’s death to a U.S. national audience was announced by Howard Cosell, on ABC’s Monday Night Football.

We miss him. I miss him.

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WDLee
11 years ago

To Mr.Rampart thank you for agreeing on the point that it is people that kill poeple not guns
but as for the difficulty of getting a gun, I present Mexico, it is completely illegal to posses a firearm their and yet they have more guns per person than the U.S. and the ones with the best guns are the criminals. And to Mr.Bull on the subject of guns being used to make it easier to kill well, in the mind of a sane person it should never be easy to pull the trigger even from afar or in self defence, taking a life is a difficult thing to do and that is why all these shootings are done by crazy people. By the way there were 260 gun murders in the U.K. last year.

WDLee
11 years ago

Saying that gun control will lessen villance is an idiotic point of view, if people want to kill eachother they will find a way, weither that means illegal gun trade or stabing someone with a FORK. IDIOTS will find a way to KILL without GUNS. taking away guns just means that SANE people won’t have a way to protect themselves or their families.

John Bull
Reply to  WDLee
11 years ago

Guns make it easy to kill people. You don’t have to get up close and personal and how many times have you had to defend yourself against some bugger trying to kill you? I don’t understand you Yanks and your bloody addiction to guns. In the UK we had like 13 gun murders and you Yanks had thousands in one year. You’re being killed by your own bloody constitution you are.

Reply to  John Bull
11 years ago

If somebody hurt you or yours Mr B in a serious way – or if you had to protect your family in a serious way and you had a gun you would use it yes? As would I and anyone in that position.

I wholeheartedly agree in many ways or indeed, all ways. America is and has a ‘gun culture’ but, in the end, we protect ‘our own’ – guns or no guns.

I would DREAD to see a ‘gun culture’ in England mainly because WE aren’t obsessed with them but, guns are increasingly being used in our beloved England.

What a bloody world it can be eh?

WTF? Just stay safe mate and the same for you and yours

N.R. x

Reply to  WDLee
11 years ago

Spot on mate.

Over here in England we, generally speaking, can’t easily get hold of a gun.

However. If I wanted to kill someone I could.

Guns don’t kill – people kill. Nuff said eh?

11 years ago

That image says it all…especially for those of us that were around when that stupid and senseless shooting happened. Poor Yoko!

Reply to  Carol Maietta views
11 years ago

Yoko has so often been villified in the media. She was married to Lennon and clearly adored him. She was ‘robbed’ of him and has been living with that memory ever since.

WTF is there to vilify???

God (or the deity of your choice) bless Yoko.

A wife lost her hubby. Forget she’s famous. She’s never stopped ‘hurting’.

Love n hugs to Yoko eh? x

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