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Originally Posted by Aliantha
Rifles are designed to kill things.
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A stone axe will do a good job of that too.
PeTA will tell you it's immoral to kill animals. Those people never took enough biology to know that all life springs from death, from dissolution. Even plants kill insects: the caffeine in a coffee bean, the cocaine in the coca leaf, and the capsicum in a chile pepper: all these compounds mess bugs up something fierce, generally by hitting them with a dose of something that wrecks their nervous systems. The dosages of these insecticides are too small to do more than stimulate the systems of large mammals like us.
You live, and not starve to death, because you kill stuff and eat it. Plant or animal, to fuel your life, it dies and is disincorporated.
That mindset is hardly unique to Vermont. It's generally prevalent in every State containing about Vermont's population: the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon -- all kinds of places whose murder rate is about 2 per 100K persons/year, a rate closely comparable to England's, in places far more generally heavily armed. Other crime is similarly infrequent. The general rule is that counties that are not entirely swallowed up by cities have low rates of murder and other crime, with murders as an example in the range of 2-3/100K/year.