[muawiyah]

A little historic perspective on this. Vermont was set up as a buffer state between New York and New England. Consequently it failed to attract new settlers from the the incoming throngs in the 1800s and instead drew down on stray French Canadians.

For all practical purposes today's Vermont is a piece of Quebec.

Quebec has a large population little changed in its attitudes from its first big surge in the 1600s when it was the main piece of New France.

If we but look back to the Religious Wars (in France in the 1500s) between the deGuise faction and the Huguenots we see the "problem" with guns and ammo and why French Canada's core area, and their colony of Vermont, are so aghast at ordinary citizens having, keeping and using firearms.

As we all recall from our American History 101 course the Huguenots and de Guise (that is, Catholic) factions settled their violence by selecting a Huguenot who became a Catholic to become King of France.

However, the Catholics gave up their personal firearms to the state but the Protestants didn't. You see that reflected in the demand by the Huguenots in America that the Second Amendment (and other elements in the Bill of Rights) be added to the Constitution before they would vote for its adoption.

Quebec's attitude toward personal firearms is a late Medieval period piece of religious bigotry that should be ignored. Teams of NRA members should be allowed to go door to door in Vermont teaching the poor folks there the truth of why guns are good ~ in a federally subsidized program of course. We'd have DVDs and CDs at the ready and could instruct them on their own computers.

Sample products of cheap Chinese knockoff zip guns could be distributed to them, and citizens would report to the nearest armory for target practice once a week until they were comfortable.

There's really no sense tolerating this retarded idea from the Middle Ages that citizens can't have guns. Of course they can have guns; they should have guns; and if they don't have them they should be taught to get them and love them.

Any Vermonters who don't like the idea should return to Quebec where they belong.

[Dr. Sivana]

Quebec has a large population little changed in its attitudes from its first big surge in the 1600s when it was the main piece of New France.

Not true. Only a generation ago, Quebec had the highest birthrate in the Americas. Now it has the lowest. They have largely rejected the Catholic culture handed down to them (the French they cling to is but a shadow of that culture) and have pretty much embraced nihilistic materialism and are the worse for it.

Protestant Ontario is just as anti-gun, if not more so, than Quebec.

[Hawthorn]

>> Teams of NRA members should be allowed to go door to door in Vermont teaching the poor folks there the truth of why guns are good <<

You gotta be kidding. Vermont is already among the most pro-gun states in the USA. That honorable tradition hasn't been negated even by the recent influx of Brooklyn-born socialists like Bernie Sanders and Manhattan-born "aristocrats" like Howard Dean.

So maybe what's really needed is for teams of rural Vermonters to go door to door in Massachusetts to explain why guns are good!

[Chuckster]

I will resist the temptation to insult you, your family, your ancestors, your cultural heritage, your neighbors and your home state as you have mine.

Rather let me suggest that you should go to wherever you got your education and demand your money back. Alternatively, you could sue your parents for raising such an ill mannered fool.

[Straight Vermonter]

LOL, you really believe that crap? The Frogs here, myself included, are the hunters and trappers of the state. It is the flatlanders who flooded the state since the sixties from Massachusetts and New York (think Sanders and Dean) who are the gun grabbers.

Have you ever even been to Vermont?