“Let’s bring back America, the green land of peace,” she pleads on social media

Mar 21, 2013 10:57 GMT  ·  By

Yoko Ono is lending her voice to the campaign in support of gun control, using John Lennon’s death as her best argument on why America needs to regulate ownership of guns.

In a series of tweets, all accompanied by the same photo – of John Lennon’s bloodied glasses – Ono offers figures and pleads with her followers to end the violence.

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“Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980,” she writes.

“31,537 people are killed by guns in the USA every year. We are turning this beautiful country into war zone,” Ono says in another tweet.

“The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. After 33 years our son Sean and I still miss him. Yoko Ono Lennon,” she continues, pleading for help to “bring back America, the green land of peace.”