Reply To: THE PUZZLE OF MURDER-BY-GUN STATISTICS

Strega wrote:

@SteveInCo. It is eminently possible that since there is a lot of genuine hunting available up here in VT, that guns are thought of as food collecting tools rather than self defense ones. No idea, but that’s a guess. We don’t really have cities in VT that compare to those in other states. Not a lot of us about, basically.

…and when I re-read what you wrote, I think that perhaps I missed your point. You might be alluding to a culture where guns are normal and not primarily used for either offense (criminal) or defense (lawful). But in a way, I did hit it, in describing the cultural shift that happened in Colorado (which almost certainly parallels that in other states). Guns were certainly not thought of as anything malignant or shady…so your only motivation for concealing them had to be “up to no good.”