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After school massacre, Newtown residents urge stricter gun control
Parents and neighbors of the children killed in last month’s Connecticut school shooting implored state
lawmakers at a hearing on Wednesday to ban the powerful rifle and high-capacity magazines used in the
As parents, first responders and town officials spoke at the Newtown high school, many in the audience
of about 600 people gave standing ovations and wept.
“We lost our son Benjamin” to an “unstable, suicidal individual who had access to a weapon that has no
place in a home,” said David Wheeler. “Military-style assault weapons belong in an armory under lock
and key. They do not belong in a weapons safe in a home.”
Legislators in Washington and around the United States are grappling with how to keep Americans safe
from gun violence in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children
Gun control advocates argue that the AR 15-type assault weapon and high-capacity magazines used by
the gunman do not belong in the hands of civilians. Gun rights advocates say that any attempt to ban
assault weapons or high-capacity magazines is a prelude to stripping Americans of their constitutional
right to bear arms.
President Barack Obama has called on Congress to approve an overhaul of the nation’s gun laws,
including an expansion of background checks for gun sales. On Wednesday, former U.S. Representative
Gabby Giffords - who was shot in the head in a mass shooting two years ago in Tucson - urged her former
colleagues to act.
Many of the proposals made by Connecticut lawmakers, including an assault weapons ban and expanding
background checks, are similar to bills under consideration also in Washington.
But while previous hearings held in the state capitol of Hartford have featured strong disagreement,
especially on gun control, most of those testifying in the hearing in Newtown shared the view that assault
weapons do not belong in the hands of civilians.
“I cannot agree that weapons such as the Bushmaster can play a legitimate role in a society that first and
foremost seeks to keep its citizens safe,” said Newtown first selectman Pat Llodra, the town’s top elected
But there were dissenting voices as well.
Wednesday’s hearing was in sharp contrast to a legislative subcommittee hearing held Monday at the
Legislative Office Building in Hartford on gun laws, which lasted hours into the night and attracted
hundreds of gun rights activists statewide. Many in the crowd at the Newtown High School auditorium,
the site where President Barack Obama addressed residents after the shooting, wore stickers urging gun
Many voiced support for more background checks, annual gun permit renewals and increased availability
of mental health services.
Michael Majeski of Newtown called it a “kneejerk reaction” to the shooting by focusing on gun laws.
Rather, he said, they need to address mental illness, pointing out how the state has closed a nearby
psychiatric hospital.
“If there is any commonsense or wisdom among the members of this committee, I would humbly ask you
to focus on the underlying causes of these murders and not these symptoms,” he said.
David Wheeler, whose son was killed at Sandy Hook, said a more comprehensive system of identifying
and monitoring individuals with mental distress needs to be created. “It doesn’t matter to whom these
weapons were registered. It doesn’t matter if they were purchased legally. What matters is that it was far
too easy for another mentally unbalanced, suicidal person who had violent obsessions to have easy access
to unreasonably powerful weapons.”
The public hearing was organized by the General Assembly's task force on gun violence prevention and
children's safety. Lawmakers hope to vote on a package of new measures around the end of February.
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История создания песни
Пол Маккартни утверждает, что мелодия песни пришла к нему во сне, и проснувшись, он был уверен, что просто раньше где-то слышал эту мелодию, а не сочинил её. Первый текст, наскоро придуманный на мелодию, содержал слова «Scrambled eggs, Oh, my baby how I love your legs…» («Яичница-болтушка, о, милая моя, как мне нравятся твои ножки…»), поэтому шуточным рабочим названием песни было Scrambled Egg («Яичница-болтушка»). Под этим же названием Джордж Мартин выпустил инструментальную версию композиции в США ещё до того, как работа над Yesterday была завершена, в связи с чем американские поклонники писали в письмах группе, что слышали «нечто под названием Scrambled Egg, представляющее полную копию Yesterday» (англ. a number called 'Scrambledd Egg' that’s a dead copy of 'Yesterday'). Во время съёмок фильма «Help!» Маккартни сел за фортепиано, расположенное на съёмочной площадке, и начал играть мелодию песни, намереваясь придумать для неё «правильные» слова. Режиссёру это не понравилось, и он сказал, что прикажет убрать инструмент, если Пол не прекратит своё «творчество». Как после вспоминал Джон Леннон, песня месяцами оставалась недоделанной и «всплывала» каждый раз, когда шла работа над новыми композициями. При этом у песни даже отсутствовало название: Маккартни и Леннон решили назвать её одним словом, но ничего подходящего не находилось.
Окончательный вариант текста песни Маккартни сочинил в мае 1965 года во время отдыха в Португалии. Он заметил, что слова, заканчивающиеся на «-эй» (say, nay, today, away, play, stay), хорошо рифмуются, а yesterday — одно из них. Также он нашёл слово Suddenly, для которого тоже легко подобрались рифмы. 27 мая 1965 года Пол прилетел в Лиссабон, где он занял гитару у группы The Shadows, и окончил написание текста песни.
В сентябре 2013 года Пол Маккартни признался в том, что со временем осознал, что посвятил эту песню своей матери, умершей, когда ему было 14 лет.
Paul McCartney claims that the melody of the song came to him in a dream, and when he woke up, he was sure that he had just heard this melody somewhere before, and had not composed it. The first text, hastily invented to the melody, contained the words "Scrambled eggs, Oh, my child, how I love your feet ..." ("Scrambled eggs, oh my dear, how I like your legs ..."), therefore The cunning work day of the song was Scrambled Egg ("Scrambled Eggs"). Under the same name, George Martin released an instrumental version of the composition in the United States even before work on yesterday (English number called “Scrambledd Egg”, which is a dead copy of “Yesterday”). During the filming of the film “Help!” McCartney sat down at the piano located on the set and started playing the melody of the song, intending to come up with the “right” words for it. The director did not like it, and he said that he would order the instrument to be removed if Paul did not stop his “work”. As John Lennon recalled after, the song remained unfinished for months and “popped up” every time there was work on new compositions. In this case, the song even lacked a name: McCartney and Lennon decided to call it in one word, but nothing suitable was found.
The final version of the text of the song McCartney composed in May 1965 while on holiday in Portugal. He remarked that words ending in “ei” (say, nay, today, away, play, stay) rhyme well, and yesterday is one of them. He also found the word Suddenly, for which rhymes, too, were easily picked up. On May 27, 1965, Paul flew to Lisbon, where he borrowed a guitar from The Shadows, and finished writing the lyrics for the song .
In September 2013, Paul McCartney admitted that he eventually realized that he had dedicated this song to his mother, who died when he was 14 years old .