[ti:For Arizona Girl, a Life of Hope With Tragic Endpoints]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.79]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.83]Christina Taylor Green
[00:11.31]was born on September eleventh,
[00:13.65]two thousand one,
[00:15.10]the day when terrorists attacked
[00:17.58]the United States.
[00:19.38]A book published the following year,
[00:21.92]"Faces of Hope," showed
[00:24.27]fifty babies born that day,
[00:27.01]one from each state.
[00:28.95]One was Christina.
[00:30.79]Last Saturday, the nine-year-old girl
[00:34.52]was among six people killed
[00:36.61]by a gunman at a political event
[00:39.31]in Tucson, Arizona.
[00:41.91]She was the youngest victim,
[00:44.24]and the first to be buried.
[00:46.33]On Thursday, a flag recovered from
[00:50.01]the World Trade Center in New York
[00:52.30]flew outside the church
[00:54.34]where her funeral took place.
[00:56.58]Services took place Friday
[00:59.52]at the same church for another victim,
[01:02.25]Arizona's chief federal judge,
[01:04.56]John Roll.
[01:06.01]A neighbor had invited Christina
[01:08.90]to meet her congresswoman
[01:10.79]at a "Congress on Your Corner" event
[01:13.77]near a store.
[01:15.27]The third-grader had recently been
[01:17.96]elected to the student council at school.
[01:20.81]But she also had other interests
[01:23.88]besides politics.
[01:25.38]She was the only girl
[01:28.07]on her Little League baseball team,
[01:30.90]and wanted to become the first woman
[01:33.59]in the major leagues.
[01:35.23]The gunman wounded Representative
[01:38.52]Gabrielle Giffords
[01:39.92]and thirteen other people, including
[01:42.85]the neighbor who brought Christina.
[01:45.45]On Wednesday, President Obama spoke
[01:49.23]at a memorial service held
[01:51.38]at the University of Arizona.
[01:53.68]He talked about each victim,
[01:56.02]including Christina Green.
[01:58.52]BARACK OBAMA: "I want to live up
[02:00.42]to her expectations. [Applause]
[02:02.55]I want our democracy to be as good
[02:05.83]as Christina imagined it.
[02:08.02]I want America to be as good
[02:10.97]as she imagined it. [Applause]
[02:14.35]All of us -¨C we should do everything
[02:17.00]we can to make sure
[02:18.48]this country lives up
[02:20.49]to our children's expectations. [Applause]"
[02:23.81]Doctors say Representative Giffords
[02:25.86]continues to make progress,
[02:27.64]although they cannot predict
[02:29.64]the extent of her recovery.
[02:31.53]She was shot through the brain.
[02:34.46]Police believe she was the main target
[02:36.95]of the attack -- the first shooting
[02:39.60]of a member of Congress
[02:41.19]in more than thirty years.
[02:43.63]Officials continue to investigate
[02:46.56]the twenty-two-year-old suspect.
[02:49.07]Jared Loughner withdrew
[02:51.40]from a local community college
[02:53.89]after being suspended last September
[02:56.34]because of fears about his behavior.
[02:59.82]Arizona has some of the nation's
[03:03.01]least restrictive gun laws.
[03:05.43]Arizonans have a long tradition with guns
[03:09.12]-- even Congresswoman Giffords
[03:11.41]talked about owning one.
[03:13.26]Mr. Loughner did not have a record
[03:16.50]of crimes or mental problems
[03:18.89]that would have prevented him
[03:20.94]from buying a gun.
[03:22.57]Two men seized him as he stopped to reload,
[03:26.36]and a woman pulled away his ammunition.
[03:29.64]Some lawmakers are proposing
[03:32.39]to renew a former ban on high-capacity
[03:36.03]ammunition magazines,
[03:37.96]like what the gunman had.
[03:40.03]These can hold more than thirty rounds.
[03:43.16]But the National Rifle Association
[03:46.64]has worked hard to fight
[03:48.79]restrictions on weapons.
[03:50.98]Many political leaders have joined
[03:54.76]the president in appealing for unity.
[03:57.55]But the shooting has also led to debate
[04:01.49]about whether or not the nation's
[04:03.82]heated political talk
[04:05.77]is enough to incite violence.
[04:08.46]A majority of Americans believe
[04:11.90]heated political speech played little
[04:15.63]if any part in the Arizona shooting.
[04:18.72]That was the finding of a USA Today-Gallup
[04:23.45]public opinion survey.
[04:25.14]Also, only about one in five people said
[04:30.11]they believe stronger gun controls
[04:32.96]would have prevented the shooting.
[04:35.55]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:37.94]in VOA Special English.
[04:41.22]I'm Steve Ember.
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