Vermont demographics is about 98% European American (I know that statement is VERY politically incorrect) and when you have that demography, the level of gun crime is almost always at low levels.
When will we begin to accept the reality that large populations of minorities and illegals tends to be attended by high levels of gun violence and crime?
It ain't the guns folks, it's the folks that wield them illegally!!
The simple fact is that different CULTURES place higher value on certain virtues (and vices). And despite what the "multiculturalist-all-cultures-are-equal" crowd, some cultures are better than others.
"Who are you to say that some cultures are better than others?!?!?" the morally superior, intellectually miniscule will scream.
Simple.
You judge cultures the same way you judge religions (as a man much wiser than me noted), by "the fruits they bear". Many cultures are simply oppressive, backward, corrupt, and pathetic. Our culture, quite simply has produced the greatest, strongest, freest(sp?) civilization in human history. There isn't any other civilization even close.
The simple fact is that it is not some of our ethnic sub cultures that produced this remarkable acheivement. It is the values of western civilization (our particular brand) that produced this success.
So what you said is not RACIST, it is factually correct. And for those of you who ARE racist, brown skin does not keep a person from embracing the values of western civilization and making a fine American.