Originally Posted by
Martin Mod
I think you are deliberately missing the point over what I meant in shocked. I have friends in Manchester, and when a local gangster got blown away last year when he went to stab up a rival, there was a sense of shock. Mainly because people knew the names, and knew the police could never touch them. They become sort of local celebrities, and when it finally happens, there is shock that it has finally happened, as you get used to them going on from year to year earning their ill gotten gains.
Though in reality you are right, you shouldn't really, in the cold light of day be shocked