When people bring this up, I am always perplexed as to why I should care.

It's just another violent death, of which the world has no end, and frankly, I never saw anything special about John Lennon.

It doesn't help that I never cared for The Beatles, and felt that their music was just pre-destined for elevators everywhere. It's shallow bubblegum, that set back rock and roll for a couple decades.

Or that Lennon's post-Beatle music was antithetical to my core beliefs, and, well... just really crappy, and reflective of pseudo-intellectuallism, political naivete and obviously the result of limited talent combined with lots of drugs.

Personally, I know better people whose death I will mourn.