lurkso: If your premise was true, Washington DC, which still has some of the strictest gun laws in the country should be fairly free of gun violence and it is not.
In contrast you have Vermont, which has very liberal gun laws and it has very fun {few} gun deaths every year
Invalid, you contrast a small rural state with a city, generally nothing meaningful comes from a state to city comparison.
DC has a population density about 10,000 per square mile, Vermont maybe 50, & Vermont's largest city Burlington iirc about 40,000 while DC has ~550,000 peoples. Vermont is maybe 95% white while DC is about 70/30 B/W, so Vermont doesn't have much racial problem.
DC is the nation's capital full of intrigue & carpetbaggers & high minded ladder climbers & ted cruz infiltrators - Vermont people go for vacation to get away from big cities like DC.
Might surprise you that 8 of the top ten states with the highest violent crime rates are PRO GUN states. More guns more lies.
And, 2011: city ---- viol crime rate .... murder & nn-MS:
Washington DC ....... 1,177.9 ................... 13.9 (2012 stats exception)
New York City ...............639.3 ........................5.1 (2012 exception)
Chicago: .................. 1,061.0 ......................15.9 {18.5 2012}
Memphis PROGUN: .... 1,583.5 ......................17.9
Nashville PROGUN ..... 1,181.3 ........................8.2
Miami PROGUN ......... 1,197.6 .......................16.8
Kansas City Mo PROGUN .. 1,199.7 .................23.4
Atlanta PROGUN Ga......1,432.8 ......................20.7
St Louis Mo PROGUN ....1,856.7 ......................35.3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
Chicago, DC, & NYC are guncontrol cities of course; Making a VALID comparison of large city to moderate-large city, we see that DC isn't doing so bad at all compared to several PRO GUN heavyweights, either at parity or better than most. And who done did the bestest? GUN CONTROL New York City that's who, well below all the others, & with that evil gun control genius bloomy at the helm too.
I cherry picked pro gun cities of course, only to offset unfair criticism aimed at Chicago & DC which also get cherry picked by gun-gurus & gunbrats.
(I think Wikipedia just came out with 2012 stats last week or so, my chart was lifted from a post on rkba where I used 2011 data, but a quick check on the cities above showed little difference in the 2 years.)
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