They throw away comments such as 'its not that bad', 'get over it' and 'they can do what they want' without actually understanding what is so wrong about what they have done.
It's easy to get into the debate about why a photograph that almost recreates the moment when Jackie-O cradled JFK's body in their motorcade after he was shot in the head can be so untasteful and wrong, but when you try and justify that it is art without knowing what you're talking about any argument you have instantly loses validity.
Fact: Four presidents were assassinated during their term in office:
Abraham Lincoln
James Garfield
William McKinley
John F Kennedy
Fiction: Nixon was assassinated – he was not
If you are going to use Nixon as an argument please know what you're talking about.
Comparing his assassination (JFK) to Lennon amongst others is a stupid thing to do, they were very different – the most notable was that JFK was murdered on Live TV. Yes there have been movies about Lennons death, but they are all based upon public record – police interviews and photographs and experts speculating. The only one I can see with any validity is the one where it is told from MDC's point of view – it puts you inside his head, and it is based on his account of the event.
No one will ever know what compelled someone to kill JFK – the one person convicted was killed before his trial and the other man that they arrested in connection never formerly confessed to his part in the assassination, so it is still unanswered.
If you don't educate yourself on what happened then you don't have a balanced view, sure you weren't there but the footage is still available and until you see it you can't comprehend the impact it had and still has on people. Ignoring something because someone from a band has done something to promote a comic book (even indirectly) is an incredibly stupid and ignorant thing to do, mostly because unknown to you, this did directly impact what is around you today.
There are a lot of what ifs, many of which no one can speculate about.
What you need to ask yourself is:
'If it was someone I admired and respected (musician/actor/president etc) and they were on TV and were killed live in front of my eyes, what would I think if someone produced a similar photograph depicting the moment that most people would remember forever?'
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