Jacqueline

Nino is late. Amelie can only see two explanations; 1, He didn't get the photo. Two, before he could assemble it, a gang of bank robbers took him hostage. The cops gave chase. They got away.. but he caused a crash. When he came to, he'd lost his memory. An ex-con picked him up, mistook him for a fugitive, and shipped him to Istanbul. There, he met some Afghan raiders who took him to steal some Russian warheads. But their truck hit a mine in Tajikistan. He survived, took to the hills, and became a Mujaheddin. Amelie refuses to get upset for guy who'll eat borscht all his life in a hat like a tea cozy.
"I suppose like you I am depressed by this mad senseless act. I don't think John Lennon ever hurt anyone. He wrote, and he sang songs. He brought pleasure, and he brought entertainment to hundreds of millions of people all over the world. And at 40, when a man or a women's life really begins to come together, he is gone forever. Murdered by some insignificant nobody with insanity and a pistol for his companions. It is not fair and certainly not right. I wonder when America will finally control its guns. How many of us have to be murdered before it will happen? John Kennedy, Bob Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., all murdered, all gone. Vernon Jordan, gunned down earlier this year. George Wallace, paralyzed, his life and career ruined. People, newspapers, critics all over the world today looking at America and Americans and saying, "that is a brutal, barbaric place". As I say "control the guns and ban them, collect them all and melt them down", I know we are not going to do that. We are again left with painful, senseless trauma, and the responsibility of feeding, clothing, and housing these Sirhan Sirhans, the Charles Mansons, the David Berkowitzs, and now the [John Lennon murderers] of the world. How much better the world might be with Dr. King, Bobby, and John Kennedy, John Lennon still alive, still with us! But, no, Americans must have their guns. And we know there is no shortage of good, strong, sensitive, talented men and women, we can afford to kill them. Our guns are signs of our freedom. Someday, maybe all 220 million of us will own a weapon. Perhaps then we will appear as barbaric to ourselves as we must appear to the rest of the world. We have so much, why do we Americans need these damn guns?"