Promise to be a bystander
I was talking with my friend Shoko , who joined my Origami Project and came to Newtown for joining summer camp about a day for everybody stop using a gun and give silence for all victims of gun shooting. We are Japanese and brought up where carrying a gun is strictly banded. I live in the States now and I am gradually understanding a history and a culture more than before. Still I am against carrying a gun. I understand the right to protect oneself and the Constitution allow the right. I respect American culture and history as I respect my culture.
I would like to say to take time to respect of all who lost lost their lives by gun shooting.
To show care and prayer for them and we can have a moment of silence and no gun moment, a minute. We don’t say to culture but ask them to consider to think of NO Gun Day or Day to remember of victims of gun shooting and pray for.
Promise Day is not what we discuses but it’s the day for everybody, children and adults to remember what we can to prevent tragedy of violent crime.
I would like to share Promise Day with my friends and people who joined my Origami Project and made cranes of prayer and hope for 26 heroes of Sandy Hook Elementary School. I would like to be a bystander. To notice a sign and ask, listen and take action.
Japans has also had a different problem of suicide of students because of bulling (and middle aged man because of of unemployment.