Isolated town of 50k

RUTLAND, Vt. — The bullets arrived before the dawn, announcing themselves with a loud crack that said this wasn’t some crank in a pickup popping off a couple of drunken, random rounds with a .22.
That sound and the holes in the thick glass door at the Rutland Police Department told the officers inside that whoever fired those shots was wielding a high-powered rifle.
Investigators quickly reviewed video from a security camera, zeroed in on a license plate, and thought they knew who they were looking for when, an hour and a half later, they spotted the white Ford Focus parked near the Walmart in a nearly deserted nearby shopping plaza.

But the driver wasn’t who they thought it would be.
It was Chris Louras, the 33-year-old son of the city’s former longtime mayor.

These are the woes of thee small sates with no apparent purpose except to be a state.  But we are stuck with the state system.  We have to invest in Vermont, give them the purpose of learning how to make national government work, their intended Constitutional role. We have tried everything else in the last 250 years.