The Vermont Legislature returns to Montpelier on Tuesday, January 7th and on January 6th the two gun control bills below emerged.
Vermont once again had the second lowest violent crime rate in the nation in 2018, the last year … Read More
Author Archives: Bob DePino
FBI Data Shows Vermont has the Second Lowest Violent Crime Rates in 2018
From vtguns@aol.com
The Vermont Legislature returns this week and gun control advocates will claim Vermont is rife with crime.
In late 2019 the FBI released crime statistics for the year 2018.
The data for violent crime rates per 100,000 residents … Read More
Why the Gun is Civilization
by Marko Kloos
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to … Read More
Casey Jennings: Gun Proposal Won’t Make Any One Safer
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Casey Jennings, a forester who divides his time between Rutland and Lunenberg. This story originally published in Vt. Digger Dec.11,2019.
Sen. Phil Baruth’s proposal to restrict the carrying of semi-automatic firearms from most public … Read More