"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> 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.

There are killings just as senseless every day, yet they don't get the media
attention. You may not care about them, but the victims families certainly
do. Lennon was just another guy that happened to write songs. He is no more
or no less important than the guy that takes our trash, collects the bridge
tolls or delivers the mail.