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Originally Posted by willravel
You're absolutely right, DK. And in 2006 only 21 people were murdered in a state that not only has about 1.29 million people but also sees tens of thousands of vacationers a year. That's less than half the murder rate of West Virginia, which has virtually no gun laws.
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http://www.census.gov/statab/ranks/rank21.html
Vermont, a state with some of the laxest gun laws in the country, has a lower violent crime rate than Hawaii.
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