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    Default Re: Newtown School Shootings

    Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
    I dont think that answered his question.
    A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size definition for what constitutes a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many "small towns" in the United States would be regarded as villages in the United Kingdom, while many British "small towns" would qualify as cities in the United States.

    The "Town" in which I have lived for most of my life contains 203k. The town I now live in contains approx 335k people and is within a 10 minute drive. As almost all of my life has been spent in between or around these towns within Western Suffolk County, my "human settlement that is larger rthan a village but smaller than a city" is Western Suffolk County. As almost all of the population that lives in Suffolk county lives in Western Suffolk county, I decided to use Suffolk county as my "Town". Does this answer the question to your satisfaction?

    Just to add, before I moved to my new town, actually before I was born, a classmate of my father in law murdered someone and kept the body in his basement until he was caught years later. Non gunshot homicide. The homicide rate is almost entirely within major metropolitan areas of the United States. It is largely confined to the most impoverished areas which happen to have the largest ratio of non-white to white people. Handguns are most often used, rifles to a much lower extent, semi-auto rifles to a statistically irrelevant.
    Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 12-22-2012 at 17:14.
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