オノ・ヨーコさん、銃規制訴え　ジョン・レノンさん没後４０年

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】英ロックバンド、ビートルズの元メンバー、ジョン・レノンさんが凶弾に倒れてから40年がたった8日、妻のオノ・ヨーコさん（87）はツイッターへの投稿で、銃規制を呼び掛けた。（写真はオノ・ヨーコさん）
　オノさんは「愛する人の死は心をえぐられるような経験。４０年たった今でもショーン、ジュリアンと私は彼がいなくて寂しい」とし、レノンさんと共作した１９７１年のヒット曲「イマジン」の歌詞を引用し「すべての人々が平和に暮らすのを想像してみてほしい」とコメント。投稿には血痕がついたレノンさんの眼鏡の画像と「ジョン・レノンが１９８０年１２月８日に射殺されて以降、米国では１４万３６００人以上が銃により亡くなった」とのメッセージを添えた。
　当時４０歳で、息子ショーンさんの育児のために５年間活動を休止した後、音楽活動を再開したばかりだったレノンさんは、オノさんと共にニューヨーク・マンハッタンのセントラルパーク前にある自宅アパート「ダコタ・ハウス」に戻ったところを、自身に恨みを持ったビートルズファンのマーク・デビッド・チャップマン受刑者により銃で撃たれた。オノさんは現在もこのアパートに住んでいる。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/12/09-10:34）

John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the legendary musician's shock murder with a call for gun control.
The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience, tweeted the 87-year-old artist, who still lives in the Dakota building in Manhattan outside of which her husband was shot four decades ago.
After 40 years, Sean, Julian and I still miss him. 'Imagine all the people living life in peace,' she wrote, quoting the 1971 song she co-wrote with Lennon that became the best-selling single of his solo career.
Ono, who witnessed her husband's murder at close range, also tweeted an image of the former Beatle's shattered and bloodied spectacles, which included the words: Over 1,436,000 people have been killed by guns in the U.S.A. since John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980.
At 40 years old, Lennon had returned to songwriting shortly before his death, having taken a five-year hiatus to raise his young son Sean.
The couple was returning home to New York's famous Dakota building across from Central Park, when disgruntled Beatles fan Mark David Chapman shot Lennon dead.
Tell me it isn't true! Ono cried in horror.
After Lennon's murder, Ono committed to preserve his memory, funding the construction of the Strawberry Fields memorial in New York that's become a point of pilgrimage for fans and mourners across the globe.
By mid-morning Tuesday, a shrine featuring flowers, photos and a small holiday tree had already cropped up on the Imagine mosaic that anchors the memorial in Central Park.
In her tweet commemorating Lennon's death, Ono included a number of hashtags including #guncontrol now and #end gun violence.
She also hashtagged the National Rifle Association, the powerful US organization that has for decades battled to loosen and eliminate firearms control legislation.
Lennon's eldest son Julian, 57, paid homage to his father, tweeting a photo with the message As Time Goes By....