Yoko Ono tweets picture of John Lennon's bloody glasses

We'll not clutter your thoughts here with a bunch of words. Yes, that's a picture of John Lennon's bloody glasses Yoko Ono tweeted on Wednesday to her 3.6 million followers.

Ono's accompanying message says simply, "Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the U.S.A. since John Lennon was shot and killed on Dec. 8, 1980."

She added: "The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience. After 33 years our son Sean and I still miss him. Yoko Ono Lennon"

This, on the heels of news the Democrats are retreating now in their legislative effort to ban assault weapons in the wake of the killings at Sandy Hook. 

Mitch Potter is the Toronto Star's Washington Bureau Chief, his third foreign posting after previous assignments to London and Jerusalem. Potter led the Toronto Star’s coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he won a 2006 National Newspaper Award for his reportage. His dispatches include datelines from 33 countries since 2000. Follow him on Twitter: @MPwrites