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Vermont was recently rated as the safest state. And Vermont lets anyone carry a gun, even without a permit.
Wordpress ^ | November 5, 2023 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 11/05/2023 3:32:43 PM PST by grundle

Vermont was recently rated as the safest state:

Source: https://studyfinds.org/safest-states-usa/

And Vermont lets anyone carry a gun, even without a permit.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Vermont


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To: ducttape45

“I always thought Vermont was a liberal bastion if ever there was one. What gives?“

It’s not about politics. It’s about demographics.


41 posted on 11/05/2023 6:38:50 PM PST by Jim Noble (The future belongs to those who show up)
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To: grundle

Vermont ain’t the only state.


42 posted on 11/05/2023 7:24:53 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: grundle

Vermont, where Libertarians vote Socialist.. It’s a strange state...


43 posted on 11/05/2023 7:32:25 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: grundle

It’s mostly that Vermont does not have a demographic problem.


44 posted on 11/05/2023 8:23:19 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: grundle

NH is pretty safe, too, and has the same gun policies.

Maine has been except for the recent mass shooting, but noticing that happened in a gun free zone is very telling.


45 posted on 11/05/2023 9:23:56 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: ducttape45
I always thought Vermont was a liberal bastion if ever there was one.

They are. They are weird over there.

However, northern VT is reputed to be very conservative and gun friendly. As usual, it's the cities, such as they are.

46 posted on 11/05/2023 9:25:58 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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Funny how everyone here has been in agreement except for one guy screaming the I-lost-the-argument code word “newbie”, guess I said something that hit too close to home for him


47 posted on 11/05/2023 9:43:04 PM PST by fightglobalism
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To: cowboyusa

Nobody is taking to you

You’re part of the problems

And too brimming with virtue signaling to see it

Nobody thought like you do just 25 years ago

So bye


48 posted on 11/05/2023 10:56:42 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: wardaddy
No virtue signaling. My American Political hero is the same as President Trump's, The great son of Tennessee, Andrew Jackson. He is what I base my political philosophy on- Jacksonianism.
49 posted on 11/05/2023 11:02:20 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: cowboyusa

I’ve got two newsflashes for you dummy

One neither racism or slavery are the original sins of this nation or western civilization no matter how how much self righteousness you sate from that vain notion

It’s pure political power to demonize the most conservative whites in the nation by extension and you enable it despite your protestations

The forces that do that which you claim to not really support but do will not stop there

In case you failed to notice

This insatiable urge to breast beat over race or any identity based grievance is a neurotic cancer

A weakness of a lack of common sense and context

If it weren’t whites enslaving non whites you could care less

The same forces are parsing and demonizing your kin in Israel right now so enjoy your company

Clueless


50 posted on 11/05/2023 11:04:09 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: wardaddy
I agree with you 100 percent. This has NEVER been a racist nation. This is the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. I love it more than anything except for GOD. Those who complain about it should get the hell out. I despise the Marxists trying to destroy my country with their woke, and I will fight to the death for it. What I do stand for and what Jackson stood for is that the United States is a nation and a Union.
51 posted on 11/05/2023 11:11:26 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: metmom

Met a lot of native Vermonters when I used to ski there every winter. They sometimes seemed to be living up to a cliched Vermont way of talking but no, it was really the way they talked.

“Could be it’ll snow later on today. Then on the other hand, maybe t’won’t.”

Great people. They rode around on horses a lot in those days; probably still do. Honest and helpful as possible, while always minding their own business. I miss them.


52 posted on 11/05/2023 11:20:17 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Steely Tom

Before Bernie Sanders, VT had an object of worship known as Scott Nearing (1883-1983). Radical, socialist, vegetarian, “ascetic” fellow who owned a large piece of farmland in VT, worth many millions of dollars. He’s the archtype. Typical leftist hypocrite.

His kind are everywhere, virtue signaling their respect for earth and all its creatures (equally), reading Foxfires and VT Country Store catalogues, pursuing crafts, beadwork, herbs and mushrooms, keeping bees, keeping warm with wood stoves, culturing yogurt, knitting with dog hair, tapping maple syrup — nothing wrong with such activities, by themselves, I practice several of them too — but they never shut up about their earth-olatry, their harmony with the universe, their degrees in sociology. It’s all a big heap of compost. Posturing as superior, they’re down with enslaving their inferiors. Of course they’re all affluent, and the wealth isn’t from selling pomanders.
There are pockets of them everywhere, VT is just a bigger pocket than most.
I personally know several dozen residents, nearly all women, many Bennington alum, and they are all faux, from their $300 sun hats down to the birkenstocks. Their families, the same. Not a Trump voter among them. No detectable Republicans. I highly doubt any of them own guns.

It’s a gorgeous state, but it attracts oddballs.


53 posted on 11/06/2023 5:19:43 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: firebrand

They are indeed nice.

Just..... a bit eccentric......


54 posted on 11/06/2023 6:17:28 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Steely Tom

Curious fact: When Sanders first won election to Congress in 1990, he ran to the right(!) of the liberal Republican freshman incumbent, Peter Smith, on the issue of guns. Smith was for gun control, Sanders wasn’t. And he’s never lost a race since.


55 posted on 11/06/2023 7:09:33 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: metmom

Didn’t know them that well, to know their eccentricities.

Good cooks. Forgot to say that.


56 posted on 11/06/2023 3:51:09 PM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

Living in NH you encounter a LOT of Vermonters.

Some are great, conservative people.

Then there are the Berniebots.


57 posted on 11/06/2023 6:15:23 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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