An important voice was silenced. I wrote about this 10 years ago:
I was not then, and am not now, a huge John Lennon fan. But that was one of those few watershed moments in life where you have to sit back and wonder — aloud — “why”? All he did was talk and sing about peace and love. Of course, he was in a long line of peaceloving people who got shot — MLK, Bobby, etc. The fact that it turned out to be a deranged fan, rather than someone with a political vendetta, made the senseless assassination all the more senseless.