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Guns in America 美国枪支
Broken hearted 心碎
“WE were in the gym and heard loud bangs”, said a nine-year old boy after the horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, where at least 26 were killed, including 20 children. The shooter, who was dressed in battle fatigues, was 20-year-old Adam Lanza, whose mother may have been a teacher at Sandy Hook. His mother was found dead at her home. Lanza was declared dead at the scene.
在康涅狄格州纽顿市的山迪·胡克小学爆发了恐怖枪击事件后，一名9岁的男孩描述事件发生时的情形：“我们在体育馆里听到很响的枪声”。在这次事件中至少有26人丧生，包括20名孩子。身穿迷彩军服的凶手亚当·兰扎（Adam Lanza）年仅20岁。他的母亲是该小学的一名教师，事发后被发现死于家中。据报告兰扎本人死于枪击现场。
Before the school went on lockdown, children reportedly heard screams over the school’s intercom system. Around 9:40 this morning, not long after the start of the school day, police received word they were needed at the school. As part of a newly implemented security programme, emergency texts were sent to parents. Fighting tears, an ashen-faced and unusually emotional Barack Obama, in an address to the nation said, “Our hearts are broken today.”
在学校被封锁之前，据说孩子们提到学校的广播系统里传出的尖叫声。今早大约9:40学校开始上课后不久，警方接到学校的求救报告。作为刚实施不久的安全措施的一部份，孩子的父母们收到紧急短讯。一向沉着内敛的巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）总统面色惨白，在讲话中强忍泪水：“今天是心碎的一天。”
And so they are. The stories of heroic teachers who protected their young charges by ushering them into bathrooms and closets are only just beginning to emerge. The images of the surviving children being led out of the school, visibly frightened or dazed, while holding hands are chilling. Parents reunited with their children at a nearby firehouse. Twenty sets of parents waited in vain.
这确实令人心碎。在事件中一些老师冒着危险将学生藏到厕所或橱柜里以躲避毒手。这类故事现在才刚刚开始浮出水面。有的照片记录了幸存的孩子们手拉着手被带离学校，脸上充满了惊恐或是迷茫，让观者寒心。家长们在附近的一个消防站里和孩子们团聚。但有20对父母最终没有等到自己的孩子。
Even in a country as accustomed to gun violence (and, increasingly, mass shootings) as America, the murder of 20 children in their elementary-school classroom is uniquely shocking. Earlier this week, a masked gunman killed two people at a shopping centre in Oregon. Over the summer, there were murderous gun rampages at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and at a cinema in Colorado. In September, a gunman killed five former colleagues at a manufacturing plant in Minnesota. That same month Mother Jones published a piece showing that of the 139
guns possessed by the shooters, more than 75% were obtained legally.
就算是在枪支暴力屡见不鲜（而且群体枪击事件越来越频繁）的美国，20名小学生在教室里被谋杀也是骇人听闻的惨案。本周初，在俄勒冈州一位蒙面枪手在一家购物中心射杀两人。今年夏天，在威斯康辛州的一间锡克教寺庙内以及科罗拉多州的一间电影院内都曾发生过死伤惨重的枪击事件。9月，明尼苏达州一间工厂内一名枪手射杀了5名前同事。同一个月里，《琼斯妈妈》出版了一篇专文，显示在枪手持有的139把枪支内，超过75%是通过合法渠道获得的。
A tearful President Obama noted that the nation has “endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years” and said that meaningful action is needed to prevent any more from happening, “regardless of the politics”. Unfortunately, other gun-related incidents, such as the one which left Gaby Giffords, an Arizona congresswoman, severely injured and killed six others, did little to push politicians to fight for gun control.
眼眶湿润的奥巴马总统提到美国“在过去几年内已经承受了太多的此类悲剧”，并指出需要有“不受政治分歧左右的”实际行动来阻止此类事件再次发生。不幸的是，之前其它一些枪击事件，如造成亚利桑那州女参议员加比·吉佛兹（Gaby Giffords）重伤，其他6人死亡的枪击并没有促使政治家们争取枪支控制。
Michael Bloomberg, New York’s mayor, urged Mr Obama to send a gun bill to Congress. Because of gun violence, he said, “not even kindergarteners learning their A, B, Cs are safe”. Marian Wright Edelman, head of the Children’s Defense Fund, wondered what it will take for politicians to stand up and put sensible gun laws in place. Every three hours, said Ms Edelman, a child or teenager is killed by a gun.
纽约市长迈克尔·布隆伯格（Michael Bloomberg）敦促奥巴马总统向国会递交一份枪支法案。他说：“现在连正在学ABC的幼儿园都已不再安全。”儿童保护基金主席玛丽安·莱特·爱德尔曼（ Marian Wright Edelman）对此充满疑问：到底要怎么样，政治家们才肯站出来制定一部合理的枪支法律。她指出每三小时就有一位少儿死于枪下。
America is not alone in suffering mass shootings. In 1996, a gun massacre in a Scottish school in Dunblane killed 16 children and one teacher. The political impact was significant. The next year the Firearms Amendment, which prohibited private ownership of cartridge handguns, was passed. Security in British schools quickly improved, too.
在群体枪击事件上，美国并不是唯一的受难国。1996年，在苏格兰邓布兰市发生的一起枪击事件造成16名儿童和一名教师身亡。该事件产生了巨大的政治影响。第二年英国就通过了《枪支修宪案》，禁止私人拥有弹夹手枪。英国学校的安全状况也随之迅速好转。
As it happens, halfway around the world, on the same day, a deranged man attacked primary-school students at a school in China’s Henan province. He had a knife. Twenty-two students were wounded. None died. Adam Lanza had a pair of handguns, and a .223 semi-automatic Bushmaster rifle, which looks like this.
祸不单行，同一天在地球的另一边，中国河南省一疯狂男子也袭击了一所小学内的学生。他用刀砍伤了22名学生。没有一人在事件中身亡。亚当·安扎持有的则是两把手枪，外加一把点223口径的半自动大毒蛇步枪，其外观点击如图。
Eleven days ago—since when two mass shootings have taken place, this one in Newtown and another earlier this
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2023-02-22
