Mark Steyn on Vermont gun-owning home owners keeping killer teens at bay
Date: May 1, 2007 8:29 AM
Mark Steyn on Vermont gun-owning home owners keeping killer teens at bay
30 April 2007 – Patriot Post Vol. 07 No. 18 – Brief
http://patriotpost.us/current/

“I live in northern New England, which has a very low crime rate, in
part because it has a high rate of gun ownership. We do have the
occasional murder, however. A few years back, a couple of alienated
loser teens from a small Vermont town decided they were going to kill
somebody, steal his ATM cards, and go to Australia. So they went to a
remote house in the woods a couple of towns away, knocked on the door,
and said their car had broken down. The guy thought their story smelled
funny so he picked up his Glock and told ‘em to get lost. So they
concocted a better story, and pretended to be students doing an
environmental survey. Unfortunately, the next old coot in the woods was
sick of environmentalists and chased ‘em away. Eventually they figured
they could spend months knocking on doors in rural Vermont and New
Hampshire and seeing nothing for their pains but cranky guys in plaid
leveling both barrels through the screen door. So even these idiots
worked it out: Where’s the nearest place around here where you’re most
likely to encounter gullible defenseless types who have foresworn all
means of resistance? Answer: Dartmouth College. So they drove over the
Connecticut River, rang the doorbell, and brutally murdered a couple of
well-meaning liberal professors. Two depraved misfits of crushing
stupidity (to judge from their diaries) had nevertheless identified
precisely the easiest murder victims in the twin-state area. To promote
vulnerability as a moral virtue is not merely foolish. Like the new Yale
props department policy, it signals to everyone that you’re not in the
real world.” – Mark Steyn