2007-04-18 04:44:04 · 11 answers · asked by Eldude 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I posted this question, because all the anti gunners are blaming crime on the ease of getting guns in "red neck" states. Vermont is quite liberal but conservative in freedom.
2007-04-18 04:53:03 · update #1
. . . and one of the lowest crime rates. DC has one of the strictest and the highest crime rate. Thus once again illustrating that the cause of gun crime is not the possession or regulation of guns, but the culture of the people who live in a given area.
2007-04-18 04:49:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I'm from Vermont and my state is strange because until the early 1990s Vermont was the nations most Republican state (honestly, look up our past voting record) our gun laws are a part of that GOP legacy similar to New Hampshire (which is slightly more of a swing state) as we don't have well any gun crime, there is no need to change our laws, even the liberals don't care for changing them, no point we are a safe little state :)
2016-05-18 00:39:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it is a very liberal state. However there are a lot of hunters in Vermont, they resist gun-control legislation. I wouldn't call Vermont a "Red-Neck" state, we do have red-necks, but we also have nearly the highest average IQ out of any state in the union!
2007-04-18 04:49:14 · answer #3 · answered by truthspeaker10 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't like to label people a lot but any place in Vermont I've ever been to seemed like it was full of more free spirited individuals, so to speak.
2007-04-18 04:49:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Vermont does it right and is probably more libertarian then liberal.
2007-04-18 06:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by timberland1952 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If Vermont were inhabited with inbred Anglo-Saxon Fundamentalist zealots living in Dogpatch, then guns would be a bigger problem there than they are.
2007-04-18 04:58:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
vermonters are, as we say in the south, "correctly liberal" -- they are tolerant and open-minded yet fiercely independent and do have a historical reputation for ruggedness and a "don't-tread-on-me" ethos. i wouldn't say redneck, but something along those lines.
2007-04-18 04:52:50 · answer #7 · answered by Super G 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
One of the most liberal states they elected a socialist for representation in congress.
2007-04-18 04:49:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, Vermont is quite progressive.
2007-04-18 04:47:50 · answer #9 · answered by tangerine 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
nope. they're ABOVE the Mason/Dixon living in God's country, they're called "Good Americans".
BTW: Maine revised their constitution and dropped the "in an organized militia" part of the second amendment.
2007-04-18 04:50:56 · answer #10 · answered by Alan S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋