It's the shooters, stupid!-----Gun Myths and the Roanoke Shooting

Gun Myths and the Roanoke Shootings - Reason.com:
"...Vermont has some of the loosest gun laws in America.
The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence gives it an "F."
The state requires no background checks for private gun sales, permits the sale and possession of "assault weapons," and allows concealed guns to be carried in public—without a license.
After the fatal on-air shooting of a TV reporter and her cameraman in Roanoke, Va., on Wednesday, blame was heaped on America's permissive firearms policy.
"There are too many guns, and too little national will to do anything about them," asserted an editorial in The New York Times.
Democratic politicians and commentators said the murders proved the need for more restrictions on guns.
But did they?
Vermont isn't much different from a lot of states in the regulation of these weapons.
But it's very different in the volume of bloodshed.
In 2013, it had the third-lowest homicide rate in the country—less than one-sixth that of Louisiana.
Utah, which also got an "F" on its laws from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, had the fourth-lowest homicide rate. 
These places refute the belief that loose gun rules and high ownership are bound to produce frenzies of carnage... "