What happened to the VT I grew up in? Hunters are going to love this. Like VT had a huge gun violence problem. When I was growing up, I didn’t know anyone without a gun. Kids even hunted, in season, on way to and from school and firearms were locked up in the office…bagging a deer was a legit excused absence. No one ever got hurt and everyone knew someone’s dad would kick their ass if they did anything unsafe and there were no cops or judges who would listen to the kid whine, if they did.