For some reason, my friends in the DC area feel they need to point it out every time they have a shooting. My friend Jenn with two 'n's IM'd me this morning.. "there was yet another shooting this morning in Fredricksburg".

When I lived in Atlanta, we had a good five or six shootings per day. We never went on the national news and announced it though. I never called people up and bragged about it.

"We had another shooting today.. nyah!"

"How many shootings have you had?! Hmm?"