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Gun Control & RKBA

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,475 posts) Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:48 PM Feb 2017

Vermont & Firearms

For 2015:

>> unintentional firearms deaths= 0
>>> per 100,000= 0
>> firearm homicides= 11
>>> per 100,000= 1.75
>> firearm suicides= 59
>>> per 100,000= 9.45

Killings by police in 2015= 0
http://fusion.net/story/209371/vermont-only-state-zero-police-killings-2015/

Vermont has had no permit concealed carry since 1777.

Is there something other states should know about Vermont and emulate?