Is the Vermont and Alaska 'Model' of Carry the 2A Ultimate?

[sdj]

StandingWolf +1

 

[Cosmoline]

If Baltimore or DC were to be transported to VT,the level of violent crime would not change.Urban violence is often linked for good and bad to RKBA by both sides of the fence so you can choose to either blame the guns for causing the violence or attribute the lack of guns to the violence.Neither is a very intelligent POV.

This is an excellent point. As it happens there are parts of this state that have always been dangerous and probably always will be. It isn't called "the last frontier" for nothing. There are a lot of drifters, boozers and nutcases around with minimal social safety net and limited family resources. In this respect AK is very different from VT. We do have shootouts sometimes. But equally we have people hacking others up with axes and blades. We have people braining each other and beating others to death. The tools are irrelevant. When you live in a wild place you simply have to accept the fact that there will be some level of threat from wild animals of both the four and two legged variety. Some drifter might up and shoot you for no reason, or you could fall out of your meat boat and freeze to death in the deep cold of the ocean waters. You can fall off a cliff or freeze to death in your cabin. You can get mauled by a bear or run over by a snowplow. Or you could get so isolated and depressed you off yourself. Lordy, if there's another big one a lot of us are going to die during and after. I work right where the land dropped down about 40 feet during the last nine pointer.

The rates for accidental and violent death are higher than normal up here because we're closer to the edge. It's part of the tradeoff for getting to live in the intense beauty of the place.