On Dec 8, 3:02*pm, (Steve Pope) wrote:
> sf > wrote:
> >John Lennon being shot didn't hold a candle to President Kennedy's
> >assassination or 9-11. *
>
> Sez you.
>
> To me, Lennon being shot was completely senseless and came out of nowhere;
> it was not just another atrocity in an ongoing, never-ending political
> conflict like either Kennedy assasination or 9/11. *So there are respects
> in which is was more impactful.
>
> (Yes, I remember where I was for all four events. *Oddly, I have
> no memory of where I might have been when Martin Luther King was killed.)
>
> Steve

Every murder is completely senseless. The only reason we "celebrate"
his death is that he was well known. His death is no more greater or
lesser than anyone else who is gunned down for no reason. We have a
strange obsession with celebrating someone's death.