If the guy who killed him is indeed a nutcase and not part of some other criminal group, I don’t necessarily think it’s an indictment of LCNs status and power as an organization. There are a lot of firearms in this country and no shortage of lunatics. Anyone could get killed at anytime. One of the articles said he was found with family in the New York/New Jersey area. No sane person in 2019 is going to brutally murder one of the most powerful gangsters in the country in front of his family, and not expect them and their families lives to be in immediate danger. Ronald Reagan was walking around with an army of secret service agents and he almost got taken out by a complete lunatic.