GregF is right--Washington DC is a great example of that--between the time I posted last and now, there were two shooting incidents--in one, five were shot, one killed, one in serious condition, in another, a fourteen year old boy shot an 11 year old in the back with a shotgun, while the 11 year old was watching TV--

Between 1990 and 2000, more than 4000 people were murdered in Washington--rather startling considering the population (in 2000) was only 570,000--nearly 1% of the population--or slightly less than 1 person out in every hundred was murdered--given that the average person knows between 1000 and 1500 people, each person would have had between 10 and 15 friends murdered during that decade--