There used to be a time when random killings, serial killings, and killing sprees only happened in the United States. At least, that was what it was till about the turn of the last century. So, that was how the Generation-Xes and Boomers felt when John Lennon was gunned down by a deranged fan, Mark Chapman, in the streets of New York on a December morning. Almost everyone accepted the fact that it was what some fans do to their idols in America.