Vermont majority legislatures have been picking away at your right to self-defense for years. Successive years, actually. The 2023 assault on your rights includes a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases, expanded Red Flag seizures, and new gun storage rules.
The dress on this old whore is not a new one. Legislators claim these changes are necessary to reduce suicides and community violence (in a state that invites both?). Before we get much further, can anyone show me an example where such infringements made a Democrat-run political entity less violent?
Supporters say it’s time to take action against gun violence and the rate of suicide in Vermont, which is higher than the national rate.
As if the rise in left-leaning policies from drugs and trafficking to sanctuary for illegals, to human trafficking (in Burlington), to COVID lockdowns could not possibly be vectors for an increase in violence or suicide.
We can add progressive anti-police rhetoric and policies and the Democrat legislature’s civilian disarmament culture.
Related: Democrat Rule Will Do That: Vermont Has Its Highest Homicide Rate in Three Decades
Back in 2018, Vermont raised the age to purchase a firearm and began dancing with protective orders. In early 2022 we reported on a bill in Vermont that banned firearms from hospitals. Why did they do that? COVID policy separated families and stressed public health workers and citizens unnecessarily. Parents and grandparents across the US died alone while loved ones were refused any contact. The death by hospital kickback protocol claimed a fair share of lives.
The same legislation included a 30-day waiting period to address the made-up Charleston Loophole. The Bill Gov. Scott eventually signed reduced the waiting period to seven days with the Hospital ban intact.
Nibbling, nibbling.
At the end of 2022, a movement began to repeal Vermont’s Sportsman Bill of Rights. If successful, cities like Burlington would be freed to pass their own local anti-gun ordinances without approval from the state. The result would be a patchwork of local mismatched rules Dems would use as leverage to make them statewide.
Nibbling, nibbling.
The [new] legislation also creates a crime of negligent firearms storage and expands the state’s extreme risk protection orders so that a state’s attorney, the Attorney General’s Office or a family or household member may ask a court to prohibit a person from purchasing, possessing or receiving a dangerous weapon.
So-Called Republican Gov. Phil Scott has concerns that it is unconstitutional, but that doesn’t concern Democrats. If he vetoed it they could override because they are more than happy to waste taxpayer money in protracted court cases on the chance that they can get future generations used to a state in which only the government is allowed to have guns. And it’s working.
Vermont went from no waiting period to thirty days, to seven, to three, all while their crime and homicide rates went up. Gov. Scott could veto it, but the Dems have veto-proof majorities.
So, how long before the once great state of Vermont needs its own version of Hey Jackass – which tracks violent crime in gun-grabbin’ Chicago?
